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Hey y'all!

I've been using Authy for some time now (switched from Google Authenticator) but an increasing amount of people is suggesting Aegis over Authy in some posts here at Lemmy and that got me curious.

Was wondering what would be the main selling points for one to use Aegis instead of Authy, can somebody help out?

Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If you already use a password manager, why not use it for your TOTPs too? Someone already commented about bitwarden.

I use KeePassXC (on Linux) and KeePassDX (on Android) to store my TOTP secrets along with my passwords. Websites that have their input fields tagged correctly allow the browser addon/autofill service to let me autofill the TOTP too!

I've come from blindly using Google Authenticator, various game-specific TOTP apps, Authy, then Aegis, to finally looking up the TOTP spec, learning that it's just a set of default parameters and a seed, to storing it religiously in my password db, extracting the seed and params from a QR code if that's all I'm given.