Ask HN: What are the alternatives to phone authentication?

• winauth

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  Discontinued Authenticator on Windows for Battle.net / Steam / Guild Wars 2 / Glyph / Runescape / SWTOR / Bitcoin and digital currency exchanges

> I don't like this single point of failure.

Honestly, this causes me much uncertainty in regards to something like Google Authenticator or other TOTP solutions.

I mean, Google's solution in particular has a "Transfer accounts" option that lets you use QR codes for a backup, but that still feels somewhat worse than having desktop software as well like KeePass and some password/biometrics protected database file like .kdbx that I could open on my phones, tablets, computers etc.

Apparently the closest you can get on the desktop is Authy, which is a TOTP client that runs on multiple platforms: https://authy.com/download/

There was also WinAuth, but it seemingly isn't updated anymore, at least since 2018: https://github.com/winauth/winauth

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