• kamek@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t enable 2fa yet either there are some bugs, and the code it generated for me didn’t work and locked me out of my account for a good bit. I’m not sure why but the 2fa link didn’t work for me so I copied the secret out of the url and put it in my authenticator but it never worked. Just fyi.

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy uses a SHA256 digest for its TOTP codes.

      Basically every other service (and therefore most authenticator apps) use SHA1.

      So although you provide the right secret, you get a different code because it’s derived from a different hashing mechanism

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        1 year ago

        My next question is this: I subscribed to the Technology community the other day. I went into my settings and did something that now won’t let me see any posts in that community and can’t fix it.

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        1 year ago

        Ooooh ok cool. Sadly I’m using MS Authenticator so I can’t specify the type. I really don’t want to migrate to another one so hopefully this gets fixed I know there is a ticket open on github.