Just spent a week manually moving everything off Authy. Total pain, but there are lots of better solutions out there now.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2024
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Welp, time to finally migrate one at a time to Proton.
That would be repeating the same mistake. You don't change one company for the other, you choose an app that is not dependent on an account, like KeepassXC.
I moved from keepassxc to bitwarden then to proton pass when it was released. I'm not going back. I keep my recovery codes separate to prevent a complete lockout. But thanks for the suggestions.
This prompted me to move away from Authy, and looking it up, it doesn't allow you to export your TOTP tokens. There were some workarounds but then have been plugged, I tried.
Mostly switched over to Bitwarden's equivalent. I've been using their password manager for many many years now and am very happy with it. They have an export feature in a few different formats.
The work around did work however you needed to download an older archived version that was unpatched.
Yeah, I did that, but then it refused to let me log in, telling me the version was not secure or something.
Older versions appear to refuse to talk with their servers, at least that was the case for me.
I only ever used Authy as a single-item TOTP vault for BitWarden, but I moved off of it long before they ever mentioned the Windows app shutdown due to dissatisfaction with the UI. I just didn’t like their “card-like” interface, and they never offered a super-compact list-like interface. The card interface just wasted too much screen real estate, even on a desktop, and it just got immeasurably worse under mobile.
Well that's already my Monday morning gone. I use Authy desktop for all of my work 2FA tokens.
KeePass has native TOTP support now
this is what I did, syncthing syncs the DB across all my devices(including my phone), and it uses a certificate key + password for the master. It lets me secure all my stuff in one location without having to mess with my phone.
I know it's less secure but, nobody has a desktop app anymore, so I would rather just have it all in one place then have to dedicate another mobile app for it.
I used Authy a couple years ago, do I need to be worried?
Only if you use it currently. Otherwise no worries.
Thanks. I couldn't understand if there was a data breach that led to this or if it was just current users.
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