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[–] flumph@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm curious about using the same store for passwords and TOTP. Technically if someone gets screwed to your database, they have both your factors, yes? But I guess it does thwart someone trying to brute force your password.

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Adding a hardware key, like Nitrokey, would be an additional level of safety there. I would not use the database without some kind of additional key (something you know and something you physically have).

If there's something nefarious that has user access, you've already lost in that regard.

[–] mirrors@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to add, you can also use multiple databases to help maintain separation

[–] rinze@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

This is what I do: I have 3 KeepassXC databases (regular passwords, "security" questions, TOTP tokens) each with a different password.

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