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If proprietary app is better and more robust I am willing to try it and assess it myself.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True true. But the auth apps I've seen don't appear to be secure. So if you lose your phone...

And I don't like hw key because I'm afraid I'll lose it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a two layer system in place:

  1. I use Aegis, I have automatic encrypted backups, and syncthing to synchronize the backups to my private server. If I need to reconfigure Aegis, I just import the backup.

  2. I have 2FA backup codes as encrypted text files, which are also synced to my server with syncthing. I have the encryption/decryption software installed on my phone and windows, so I can use a backup code if I don't have access to Aegis.

One issue was I had to write my own apps for windows and android for encrypting/decrypting the text files ๐Ÿ˜ƒ. You can check them on GitHub: https://github.com/mcanyucel/TextCrypt-Windows https://github.com/mcanyucel/textcrypt-android

They use SHA256 with random IV and random salt. No warranties, though ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Damn! I hope I don't have to be quite that careful. I travel a lot so I really only worry about the USA border guards. ๐Ÿ˜’