> in what situation would you need to extract the key while you still have access to it in one of your apps? I use FreeOTP on Android to store and generated OT

> in what situation would you need to extract the key while you still have access to it in one of your apps? I use FreeOTP on Android to store and generated OTPs. Many years ago I had an HTC One (old version). I was listening to music one day and it just died - wouldn't turn on. Thankfully I extracted most of my OTP keys and was able to setup FreeOTP from scratch. If I didn't - I would be in a world of hurt for the ~20 services that may or may not provide recovery codes (I know you do - but just keep in mind phone dying or theft). Like I mentioned in the previous post - to me a recovery key isn't to be used lightly, in my opinion it should only be used for "oh crap I need to login right now and I don't have my phone". I'm not saying I don't trust you and recovery codes - I already got burned once and I don't want to be in that position again. My solution is to squirrel away the OTP keys. Besides - I can already get it by using a barcode scanner on the QR code you generate so I'm not sure what we are arguing about.