Is this some sort of a convenience feature hidden behind a paywall to justify purchasing their subscriptions or does generating the codes actually cost money? If the latter is the case, how do applications like Aegis do it free of cost?
its best to keep passwords and totp separate
Naaah, in “Multiple factor Authentication”, the word “factor” is just to look cool… The original MfA meant “Multiple fields Authentication”. (I’ll see myself out)
i dont think i know what youre talking about?.. but factor refers to one of three types: something you know (passwords), have (totp or yubikey), or are (biometrics). having 2 passwords is almost the same as having one password, since they are the same factor. thats why having totp linked to your password manager is basically like having 2 passwords. it almost defeats the point
I made a joke, basically saying that if you use a single device, it’s “Multiple fields authentication” as opposed to “multiple factors authentication”.
ohh yeah i get it good one
Not sure I agree.
Yes, your password manager is a single point of failure this way. But I would argue any non-SMS based TOTP is better than none, so if a higher percentage of people use it the easy way instead of not at all I consider that a win.
After all, you would still not only need the password but also access to the manager which technically is more than one factor.
That’s just an excuse to charge more. TOTP is standardized in RFC 6238 and cost nothing to generate.
On top of that, it takes no more than 5 lines of Python code to generate
It’s free on KeePass, use syncthing to have personal libre cloud.
Keepassxc and macpass do it for free
Because the business model works that way.
Draw them in with features and lock the actual security features behind an additional pay wall.
Enterprise environments is rife with this kind of crap. Sso.tax lists some of the worse ones.
I use KeePassXC which doesn’t charge a cent for this.
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