Bitwarden just launched a new authenticator app. Here’s what it means to users. | Bitwarden Blog
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Storing 2FA codes is just the beginning. Bitwarden aims to add defense in depth to authentication.

Bitwarden Authenticator is a standalone app that is available for everyone, even non-Bitwarden customers.

In its current release, Bitwarden Authenticator generates time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) for users who want to add an extra layer of 2FA security to their logins.

There is a comprehensive roadmap planned with additional functionality.

Available for iOS and Android

  • @KnasenEnglish
    44•8 months ago

    This is actually really good of them to realize that there is a market for another, separate, 2FA app to be honest. I don’t trust or like Google nor Microsoft. Authy is crap and going down the drain.

    Using 2FAS now but not really feeling it.

    If I could self host this and have redundancy/offsite backups I would probably move to this separate solution (Outside of regular Bitwarden).

    Keeping the passwords and 2fa tokens in the same app is like writing the password on a post-it underneath the keyboard.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•8 months ago

      Privacy friendly Ente has an E2EE cloud backed up authenticator app called Auth. In case you didn’t want to host your own, or need multi-device sync.

      Or you can just self host Bitwarden and use the built in 2FA that can be attached to any login

    • @[email protected]English
      2•8 months ago

      Are you in my head? Is this an alternate account that my subconscious self uses? What is real?

    • @[email protected]English
      2•8 months ago

      Re Authy: Still use it for the backup and restore. I had a phone die in me and without that feature, i would have been locked out of so many accounts. Happy to switch if something better comes along, but backup is a must for me (and not via Google…)

      • @LucidNightmareEnglish
        4•8 months ago

        This new Bitwarden 2FA does backup and restore! It was also important to me, as I had a phone stolen one time and without my backed up “emergency codes”, I’d been SOL! :)

      • @KnasenEnglish
        3•8 months ago

        I’m feeling you! That’s the same reason I’m looking for a alternative.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•8 months ago

        I had a phone die in me

        The phone being inside you is probably why it died 😂

        But on a serious note, I haven’t switched to passkeys because I don’t have a clear mental model of how to recover from losing both my phone and computer at the same time.