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#AUTHY DESKTOP MASTER PASSWORD HOW TO#
#AUTHY DESKTOP MASTER PASSWORD INSTALL#
#AUTHY DESKTOP MASTER PASSWORD ANDROID#

If you are prompted to update, do NOT do it the latest version doesn't support -remote-debugging-port needed below.

#AUTHY DESKTOP MASTER PASSWORD INSTALL#

Install Authy desktop app (version 2.2.3 versions after that won't work).Important: You can NOT delete your Authy account, even after migrating your TOTP tokens to another software! If you do, you could be locking yourself out of all the accounts that require Authy! You can probably get rid of Authy on your phone and log in to Authy on your desktop using SMS.

#AUTHY DESKTOP MASTER PASSWORD HOW TO#

I am assuming you know how to use Authy and have some services added already. This method has only one gotcha - if you want add a new service that relies on Authy, you will need to run Authy again. Ok, that's nice, but I want to get rid of Authy now

Authy for iOS (doesn't support other timeouts than 30s, the irony!).

1Password for Windows (doesn't support other digit counts and timeouts yet).

The code should have 7 digits and should change every 10 seconds. If you are not sure, scan this code with your authenticator to test. So as long as you have an authenticator which can do longer passwords than 6 characters and do custom time periods, then congratulations, you can use the following method.

Authy's secret keys are in hex already, so they need to be turned back to base32 for working QR codes.

Don't substitute this period longer in your Authenticator. Authy shows 20 seconds, but that means a slightly different thing.

The password validity period is 10 seconds (instead of usual 30).

The passwords are one digit longer - 7 digits (usually they're 6, with exceptions), but if you've looked at one of the Authy generated passwords already, you probably noticed it too.

They use the exact same algorithm to generate passwords as Google Authenticator and similar (TOTP).

I had to adapt the code a little and you can see the result below, but here's what I discovered about Authy's method: My guess is that Brian used the code to extract the keys that weren't necessarily tied to Authy.

But when I tried that code, nothing appeared on the screen.

#AUTHY DESKTOP MASTER PASSWORD ANDROID#

If this was not possible, I guess people would be reverse engineering the Android app or something like that. His method is to extract the secret keys using Authy's Google Chrome app via Developer Tools. His post had a neat code with it to generate QR codes for you to use on your favorite authenticator. I couldn't find any completely working solutions, however I stumbled upon a gist by Brian Hartvigsen. Since I use 1Password for all of my password storing/generating needs, I was looking for a solution to use Authy passwords on that. However many users who aren't using Authy, have their own authenticator setup up already and do not wish to use two applications for generating passwords. There is an increasing count of applications which use Authy for two-factor authentication. Generating Authy passwords on other authenticators