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> since the e2ee does not depend on a user chosen master password. What's the story with "my phone went in the lake" using that setup?
by mdaniel 4y ago
> since the e2ee does not depend on a user chosen master password.
What's the story with "my phone went in the lake" using that setup?
- isthisthingon99 4y agoSince i use Google Authenticator for numerous services this is going to happen to me one day. So what I did was set it up on more than one phone.
- mdaniel 4y agoI would legit pay money for Google to pull that piece of junk from the Play Store, because it's damn malpractice at this point, given there are so many other options that don't straight-up swallow the TOTP keys
- isthisthingon99 4y agoSorry what
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoI also have two phones with Google Authenticator. Is that a bad idea?
- FreakLegion 4y agoYou can back the secrets up to a text file, print them out, etc. too. They're short Base32 strings and TOTP is a standardized protocol with an RFC (6238) and everything.
- isthisthingon99 4y agoYes i did this too
- jve 4y agoExcept it is cumbersome to doo on Google Authenticator. You must press export to get shown a giant QR code. You can't screenshot it. Must photo with different phone and print on a piece of paper for offline storage.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agofish it out of the lake and pay someone $1000 to extract the tpm and restore it for you
- sufficient 4y agoJust wrote a longer answer to the question below, hope that covers your question as well.