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Google Authenticator is not a password storage app. It produces time-based hashes that expire every 60 seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-ti
by donarb 8y ago
Google Authenticator is not a password storage app. It produces time-based hashes that expire every 60 seconds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_a...
- RKearney 8y agoOP never claimed that it was. They were discussing the second factor in two-factor authentication workflows. Google Authenticator is exactly that, as you pointed out.
- monocasa 8y agoGoogle authenticator generates those hashes from a plaintext key stored on device in a SQLite database. If you can read /data, then you can generate any hashes that Google Authenticator can.
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