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  • Adam@lemmy.adambowl.es
    24·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy supports true standard totp. Those apps listed are the obscure ones, they do their own wacky shit with the standards

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      The implementation doesn’t verify that you can generate valid tokens before updating your account and doesn’t give you any backup recovery tokens.

    • csm10495@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      1 year ago

      I disagree. Per RFC, only SHA1 needs to be supported. These apps support SHA1.

      Lemmy is using SHA256 which ‘may’ not ‘must’ be supported per RFC.

      The standard is SHA1… it is a ‘must be supported’. Every other website I use TOTP with works with all these apps. Lemmy is the outliar via using SHA256.

      Edit to add RFC reference:

      As defined in [RFC4226], the HOTP algorithm is based on the
   HMAC-SHA-1 algorithm (as specified in [RFC2104]) and applied to an
   increasing counter value representing the message in the HMAC
   computation.

...


TOTP implementations MAY use HMAC-SHA-256 or HMAC-SHA-512 functions,
   based on SHA-256 or SHA-512 [SHA2] hash functions, instead of the
   HMAC-SHA-1 function that has been specified for the HOTP computation
   in [RFC4226].

      In: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6238