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Raivo wiped all of my TOTP codes (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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9 months ago, Raivo OTP for iOS was sold to Mobime. Raivo was hailed highly in terms of privacy, but was dethroned to 2FAS Auth after that incident. Today, Raivo launched an update, and after updating all of my entries were completely wiped. I didn't have a backup, but even if I did you now have to pay in order to import/export TOTP codes. No thank you.

If you haven't already, create a backup right now for all of your 2FA apps, even if you think it won't break.

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[–] Fake4000 14 points 5 months ago

You should be storing your 2fa seeds somewhere just in case an update isn't able to import a backup. Makes it easy to shift to another app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

TOFU Authenticator is FOSS

https://github.com/iKenndac/Tofu

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Why wouldn't you have backups? Of course OTPs are the most important thing to backup..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What's the use case for using anything other than red hat's freeotp?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What about Aegis?

[–] DishonestBirb 8 points 5 months ago

Aegis is for Android, Ravio is an iOS app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Uh, what do you mean? OpenOTP is great for 2FA for lots of sites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If I remember correctly, I chose ravio over freeotp because the later lacked:

Scanne functionality didn't work.
No export / inport
Freeotp seemed like abondonware

Jokes on me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Backups are good but this seems like a iOS type issue. Locked ecosystem with closed source apps designed to milk you.

Fossdroid is they way

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm all for open apps but you'd have the same problem on Android without root if the app chooses to keep its stuff in its private storage. It's worth noting it's not restricted to iOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You really don't. Android has F-droid which has lots of 2FA apps. These apps are community built so it is unlikely that you would have the same issue. However, you can still backup most of them just in case

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

The app was bought out 9 months ago by some mystery company, isn't actually open source, and you have not switched or made backups? I'm sorry, this is as much a user error as an issue with Raivo.