PSA: Authenticator Plus, once the darling of 2FA fans, is abandoned and dangerous!

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  • Aegis

    A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens.

  • Aegis is IMO the way to go. If you keep your backup in a safe place, you'll be good to go indefinitely, doesn't matter how often you changes phone.

  • authplus-to-andotp-magiculator

    Convert and migrate from Authenticator Plus backup database into andOTP backup database.

  • Answering my own question -> Someone switching from Apple to Graphene had a similar issue -> mercifully the Authenticator Plus protocol is outlined here. -> which led me to this interesting article on how to extract its SQLCipher db -> which led me to a dockerized version of the process on github ...

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  • AuthenticatorPro

    📱 Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) client for Android + Wear OS

  • I switched to authenticator pro (from authplus) (https://github.com/jamie-mh/AuthenticatorPro) not that long ago and it had a import function for authplus that worked well. But the issues with Google auth (portability for me) and now auth plus (no longer supported, breaking) has made me very aware of the possibility of issues. I've been meaning to look into better backup plans for future issues with any app, if possible. This post reminded me I should really dig into it. Thanks.

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