Ask HN: How do you start over with 2FA and losing your phone?

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  • keepass2android

    Password manager app for Android

  • I use KeepassXC password manager[1], it keeps my TOTP information and makes it available to use on all my devices. It syncs between my devices using Dropbox. Kepassium[2] makes it available on iOS, and Keepass2Android[3] makes it available on Android. It also manages my SSH keys and adds them to the ssh-agent, even on Windows. and houses a backup of my GPG keys. I even found that it can manage my credentials for use in scripts and git using git-credential-keepassxc[4].

    Similar functionality can be had from 1Password[5], of you're into the more fancy experience. As a bonus this approach makes it very easy to store all those backup codes that dotp services often give you. Won't help your current predicament but will prevent it from happening again :)

    1: https://keepassxc.org/

    2: https://keepassium.com/

    3: https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android

    4: https://github.com/Frederick888/git-credential-keepassxc

    5: https://1password.com/

  • keepassxc

    KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

  • I use KeepassXC password manager[1], it keeps my TOTP information and makes it available to use on all my devices. It syncs between my devices using Dropbox. Kepassium[2] makes it available on iOS, and Keepass2Android[3] makes it available on Android. It also manages my SSH keys and adds them to the ssh-agent, even on Windows. and houses a backup of my GPG keys. I even found that it can manage my credentials for use in scripts and git using git-credential-keepassxc[4].

    Similar functionality can be had from 1Password[5], of you're into the more fancy experience. As a bonus this approach makes it very easy to store all those backup codes that dotp services often give you. Won't help your current predicament but will prevent it from happening again :)

    1: https://keepassxc.org/

    2: https://keepassium.com/

    3: https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android

    4: https://github.com/Frederick888/git-credential-keepassxc

    5: https://1password.com/

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  • git-credential-keepassxc

    Helper that allows Git (and shell scripts) to use KeePassXC as credential store

  • I use KeepassXC password manager[1], it keeps my TOTP information and makes it available to use on all my devices. It syncs between my devices using Dropbox. Kepassium[2] makes it available on iOS, and Keepass2Android[3] makes it available on Android. It also manages my SSH keys and adds them to the ssh-agent, even on Windows. and houses a backup of my GPG keys. I even found that it can manage my credentials for use in scripts and git using git-credential-keepassxc[4].

    Similar functionality can be had from 1Password[5], of you're into the more fancy experience. As a bonus this approach makes it very easy to store all those backup codes that dotp services often give you. Won't help your current predicament but will prevent it from happening again :)

    1: https://keepassxc.org/

    2: https://keepassium.com/

    3: https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android

    4: https://github.com/Frederick888/git-credential-keepassxc

    5: https://1password.com/

  • KeePassium

    KeePass-compatible password manager for iOS

  • I use KeepassXC password manager[1], it keeps my TOTP information and makes it available to use on all my devices. It syncs between my devices using Dropbox. Kepassium[2] makes it available on iOS, and Keepass2Android[3] makes it available on Android. It also manages my SSH keys and adds them to the ssh-agent, even on Windows. and houses a backup of my GPG keys. I even found that it can manage my credentials for use in scripts and git using git-credential-keepassxc[4].

    Similar functionality can be had from 1Password[5], of you're into the more fancy experience. As a bonus this approach makes it very easy to store all those backup codes that dotp services often give you. Won't help your current predicament but will prevent it from happening again :)

    1: https://keepassxc.org/

    2: https://keepassium.com/

    3: https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android

    4: https://github.com/Frederick888/git-credential-keepassxc

    5: https://1password.com/

  • otpauth

    Google Authenticator migration decoder

  • will generate a PNG file for each account, name after the account name and site name, and containing the QR code for the account.

    Going forward, save those PNGs somewhere secure (I use an encrypted tar file). Any new accounts you set up save the QR codes for those as PNGs and add them to your collection. If you keep that collection up to date you will be able to readily handle any device updates or replacements readily or adding new TOTP apps.

    [1] https://github.com/dim13/otpauth

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