▲ 396 ▼ GitHub to require 2FA on accounts by October 6, 2023 (github.blog) submitted 3 years ago* by Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev to c/technology@lemmy.ml 125 comments fedilink hide all child comments I personally am fine with this.
[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) websites explicitly said to get one or the other so I did. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] subtext@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago (2 children) Well the good news for you is that a website specifying one or the other is nothing more than marketing from that app maker! So long as there is a QR code (or a long random-ish string), you can use any authenticator app that supports that website’s 2FA algorithms! That last bit is important because I think Lemmy had a non-standard 2FA algorithm (SHA-256?) that wouldn’t work with Google Authenticator. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Rootiest@lemm.ee 6 points 3 years ago* Lemmy works with Google Authenticator, but not with Authy. Annoyingly Authy fails silently and ignores the part of the code that specifies SHA-256 and just generates a SHA-1 code that won't work with no warning or indication to the user. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago that's good to know. I'll just switch everything over to google authenticator then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] subtext@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago (2 children) Well the good news for you is that a website specifying one or the other is nothing more than marketing from that app maker! So long as there is a QR code (or a long random-ish string), you can use any authenticator app that supports that website’s 2FA algorithms! That last bit is important because I think Lemmy had a non-standard 2FA algorithm (SHA-256?) that wouldn’t work with Google Authenticator. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Rootiest@lemm.ee 6 points 3 years ago* Lemmy works with Google Authenticator, but not with Authy. Annoyingly Authy fails silently and ignores the part of the code that specifies SHA-256 and just generates a SHA-1 code that won't work with no warning or indication to the user. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago that's good to know. I'll just switch everything over to google authenticator then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rootiest@lemm.ee 6 points 3 years ago* Lemmy works with Google Authenticator, but not with Authy. Annoyingly Authy fails silently and ignores the part of the code that specifies SHA-256 and just generates a SHA-1 code that won't work with no warning or indication to the user. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago that's good to know. I'll just switch everything over to google authenticator then. permalink fedilink source parent