Simply put, I want an open-source cross-platform password manager for the desktop, capable of handling TOTP.
An open-source TOTP authenticator with backup capabilities.Īfter exporting 26 2FA accounts in clear-text and painstakingly adding them one-by-one with the TOTP authenticator on the iPad, I concluded that the ability to export and import 2FA accounts wasn’t the be-all and end-all solution I expected it to be. Unsurprisingly, the TOTP application I was using on Android was not available for iOS, and thus my export and import strategy failed at the very first hurdle.įreeOTP+ on Android. The limitations of this strategy became painfully evident when I wanted to use a TOTP authenticator on my iPad. My old approach relied solely on using time-based one-time password (TOTP) applications capable of exporting and importing 2FA accounts. This has encouraged me to find a more resilient strategy for how I store, manage, and backup my secret keys.
If I have to change one of those passwords, it would save a lot of time updating her copy of those passwords to be able to select entries with an "Alice" tag, and then save just that subset into a new database, rather than having to copy the entire database, and then having to go through and delete all of the entries that I don't want Alice to have.The amount of services offering (or even demanding) two-factor authentication (2FA) is ever-increasing. These could be things like VPN passwords, for example. Likewise, suppose I want to share a subset of my passwords with the hypothetical "Alice" (always used in crypto examples). I would like to mark the entries in keepassxc on my desktop that I need on my phone (using say a "phone" tag), and then create a database with just those entries. I use keepassdx on my phone (same database format), and I don't want my entire password database on my phone (adds risk for no useful reason) - I only want the entries I am likely to need in that database.
If this feature goes in (and I hope it does), please, PLEASE, don't forget the very best use case (in my opinion) - the ability to "save database as" only entries that have certain tags (or export them - that would be more work having to re-import them into a new database, but still a huge improvement over not having that capability).
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