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How is everyone handling the 2FA requirement for GitHub? (docs.github.com)
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Just wondering what people are using to meet the 2FA requirement GitHub has been rolling out. I don't love the idea of having an authenticator app installed on my phone just to log into GitHub. And really don't want to give them my phone number just to log in.

Last year, we announced our commitment to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable two-factor authentication (2FA)...

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago

The point of being time based is to not send it. That's the whole point. To avoid that vecotor of attack.

[-] Dymonika@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

Do you think the SMS codes are not time-based on the companies' ends? How are they deriving the digits, then?

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago

They are not time based, correct.

[-] Dymonika@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Interesting, I didn't know that. So how do they derive the digits?

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Best practice for a cryptographic nonce is to generate them randomly every time

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