[QUESTION] What do you think about using Bitwarden for 2-factor authentication?

[marcqw]

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Hello and thanks for this awesome job.

Just a simple and quick question: Bitwarden is recommend as a good password manager. What do you think about using it for 2-factor authentication?

Thanks for your clarification :)

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[ltguillaume]

I think that while you'll still have more protection against brute force attacks and bad server-side security by using 2FA from within your password manager, it does effectively nullify all benefits when it comes to the prevention of compromising the user side of things: while it's just more work to fill in the authentication, there's no additional security (on that side).

You'd be better off using a separate authenticator with a separate way of accessing it (ideally on a separate device).

[Lissy93]

Yeah, I agree with @ltguillaume - having passwords and 2FA codes in the same place defeats the objective of 2FA, if your password manager was (god forbid) ever compromised. Still better than no 2FA, but I personally just use a separate app.