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How hard is it to use a separate password manager and MFA app? I personally don’t keep any MFA codes in keychain because it’s not convenient to retrieve the passcode in most cases.
You’re posting this on an Apple forum so I have to ask: how is not convenient? If you use iCloud Keychain + Safari everywhere, it’s ridiculously convenient. I went through some contortions in order to migrate my Symantec VIP codes to iCloud Keychain just so I could have that sweet code integration.
I can’t use my 2FA codes on devices that aren’t connected to my Apple ID, my work devices use Apple Business Manager apple IDs. I have a PC I use for Sony Vegas, etc.
I’m on all the betas so I can’t be sure if it’s available to everyone but apple’s keychain gives you the option of using Authy or google chrome 2FA codes so, at least on Mac, your codes will auto-populate
you can still view the generated codes in the settings app on your devices that are signed into your personal apple ids. not super convenient but possible.
I know that I can, it’s just worth it to me to maintain a separate MFA app. (In my case DUO because my work requires it for PC logins anyways)
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I feel like that defeats the purpose of 2fa.
I agree for the most part but it doesn’t entirely defeat the purpose. If someone got a hold of your password for a website it would still protect you. And let’s be honest, that’s the most likely scenario. But yes if someone got into your password manager then it’s completely game over. A scenario where having a separate 2fa device would still protect you.
It definitely defeats the purpose. If you store them together there’s only one factor!
Things you know, have, or are.
It just becomes two things you know.
Password managers do have two factors: the vault (have) and the master password (know).
There’s a balance between convenience and security and IMO storing both on 1Password is fine. An attacker getting into your 1PW account would require them having
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your username
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and your password (which should be unique to only 1PW)
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and your secret key
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or physical device access with your 1PW password or biometric auth credentials
in which case an attacker really wants your stuff, has your device, and you have bigger issues.
I feel like this is similar to saying “is your front door lock strong enough?” when a thief is at your door and really wants to get inside, regardless of level of effort required.
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I don’t know, the article summed it up perfectly. Of course, I do it anyway. If someone steals and decrypts my laptop, and decrypts my password vault, they’ve earned the contents of my bank account.
as one of the comments on that post said, even easier is they just call the bank pretending to be you and get them to reset your password. they don’t need any of your devices or vaults in that case, just some easily discovered personally identifying info (which was probably leaked in a data breach)
