Just wondering what people are using to meet the 2FA requirement GitHub has been rolling out. I don't love the idea of having an authenticator app installed on my phone just to log into GitHub. And really don't want to give them my phone number just to log in.

Last year, we announced our commitment to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable two-factor authentication (2FA)...

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are not time based, correct.

[–] Dymonika@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting, I didn't know that. So how do they derive the digits?

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Best practice for a cryptographic nonce is to generate them randomly every time