gauth
Google Authenticator in your terminal (by pcarrier)
Aegis
A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens. (by beemdevelopment)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gauth
Posts with mentions or reviews of gauth.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-02.
- Aegis Authenticator – Secure 2FA App for Android
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TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch
I use https://github.com/pcarrier/gauth
It relies on file permissions so is not exactly robustly secure (no idea about RAM vulnerabilities etc).
As per the author, I consider my laptop the fundamental point of vulnerability. If someone else gets access to it, I'll know and I'll hit the metaphorical panic button :)
- Ask HN: Does anyone else think this 2FA everywhere is getting out of hand?
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Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?
I was able to take a screenshot of GAuth backups on iPhone using the button hotkeys(IE: Power+Volume up). I setup a container that runs a go version of GAuth and used a python script to decrypt the (decrypted QR code) backup keys. Then I backed up the encrypted keyfile to offline disk, encrypted the container backup and deleted it from the hypervisor.
https://github.com/pcarrier/gauth
https://github.com/scito/extract_otp_secret_keys
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A simpler and safer future – without passwords
> A future without passwords
No, thank you, especially if Google is going to be the gatekeeper.
https://github.com/pcarrier/gauth FTW
Aegis
Posts with mentions or reviews of Aegis.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-31.
- Degoogling in 2024
- Aegis v3.0 – a free, secure and open source 2FA app for Android
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End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
For 1Password I use a Yubikey, but for 2FA in general, I have a backup phone running Aegis[1].
[1] https://getaegis.app/
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Are there good alternatives to Google for 2FA?
Bottom line is, why in the world would you use a mysterious closed source app when there are better options out there? 2FAS is one of the better ones. Aegis Authenticator is another good choice for Android devices.
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Amazon Account with unauthorised purchases, did my google passwords get leaked
You can enable 2fa with amazon I suggest you do that with a 2fa app like aegis, that will greatly increase the security of your account and require the 2fa code to login to your account.
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PSA: Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency
Aegis Authenticator has been a lifesaver for me: https://getaegis.app/
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Ask HN: How do you deal with TOTP 2-factor auth?
I use Aegis[1] on mobile and OTPClient[2] on my computer, both are regularly backed up on change.
I do not use the TOTP feature in my password manager (though I can split it to new DB in keepassXC) as feel it will defeat the purpose of 2FA.
[1] https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis
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All my Open Source App Alternatives
Google Authentificator → Aegis
- Offline Device to backup MFA seeds
- Ist sonst noch jemand genervt von diesen Authenticator-Apps von Microsoft und Google?