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I use Aegis as my main app for 2FA so I can answer these questions: > Can you do an encrypted backup on demand (protected with a password you supply)? Yes! >
by logicprog 3y ago
I use Aegis as my main app for 2FA so I can answer these questions:
> Can you do an encrypted backup on demand (protected with a password you supply)?
Yes!
> Is there any desktop app such backup can be opened/read with (or even eg. read with something like sqlite db browser)?
It's just plain JSON once decrypted, so it's always readable; I do know the GNOME Circle app "Authenticator" can natively import Aegis backups as well, since it's what I use on my desktop machine, but I don't know what other apps exist.
> Can the app be configured to save an encrypted copy to eg. Dropbox whenever changes are made?
It does have some facilities for automatic and cloud backups judging from the settings page, but I've never tried them
> Is it recommended to install from Play store, or the APK off GitHub?
If you do the latter you'd lose automatic updates. I used F-Droid.
- greenmartian 3y ago>If you do the latter you'd lose automatic updates. Obtainium[1] will give you automatic updates from most sources, including Github/Gitlab/Codeberg and F-Droid repos. Especially relevant to this discussion, since Aegis 3.0 hasn't hit F-Droid yet, as at the writing of this comment. [1] https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium