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tiuub / KeeOtp2

KeeOtp2 is a plugin for KeePass. It provides a form to display one time passwords and is fully compatible with the built-in OTP function.
MIT License
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Is this basically an alternative for Google authenticator or Authy? #6

Closed vespino closed 3 years ago

vespino commented 3 years ago

So forgive me for maybe asking a stupid question, but is this plugin an alternative for Google authenticator or Authy? If yes: how would I go about using this on my phone?

tiuub commented 3 years ago

No problem. How to learn something, if you dont ask someone?

So the simple answer is, this plugin is a alternative for both Google and Authy. This is because generating Time-Based One-Time-Passwords (TOTP) is standarized by RFC 6238. Due to this standard, it is possible to give the user the freedom to choose its favourite TOTP Generator. So you only need to know your secret, which was shown to you during the setup process of 2fa in your website (like Google, Github, etc.), so you can enter this secret in Google Authenticator or Authy or even this plugin. So its up to you, which generator you want to use.

If you want to use this plugin on Android, you can simply setup your 2fa with this plugin on your computer and then use Keepass2Android. It supports TOTP for KeePass Databases on Android.

vespino commented 3 years ago

Thanks for explaining. I'm an iPhone user, so unfortunately this won't work for me.