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Add Lemmy 2FA into 2FAS for iOS (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by techwooded@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hey everyone, still on the iOS train for the time being, and want to enable 2FA for my Lemmy account. Currently the way this is done, it gives a link and that link default opens in Keychain, however I want to add the token to 2FAS. Anyone know how to do this?

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[–] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can we agree that the 2FA is terrible implemented here in lemmy?

Also U2F would be nice. I don't know, security must be number 1 priority when you design a social network.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I doubt they are going to get that far in the weeds

[–] Rootiest@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think this is Lemmy's fault.

All they did was use the more secure SHA256 algorithm.

AFAIK this issue is the result of 2FA apps not properly setting the algorithm as specified (or in some cases not even supporting it)

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Copy the link on the 2FA installation link button in your Lemmy account settings and put in the secret= value inside the Secret Key (required) field of 2FAS (heads up, it's going to be fairly long), and under additional info you need to change the Algorithm to SHA256. Everything else stays the same.

Another way would be to use an addon (ex: on Firefox) to generate a QR code from your desktop browser by right-clicking the 2FA installation link and clicking QR code from link, then scan the QR code into 2FAS.

Always make sure you have a backup of your 2FAS data, either local or cloud-based.