At a glance (haven’t enabled yet, will later today), GoG uses the RFC standard TOTP model. This means you can use whatever app you want whether that is the google authenticator that ties it to your cloud account, something related to your password manager (e.g. keepass or bitwarden), or even just a python script you have in a random directory. It gives you control of your 2FA and protects you in the event you lose a device without properly de-authenticating it.
Valve use their own model that, to my knowledge, is only accessible through the Steam mobile app. Which is a huge nightmare if you ever have a device stolen/damaged (and is why you back up the recovery code)
Just enabled. Yup, bog standard TOTP and they even provide the plaintext key so that I don’t have to extract it from a QR code.
I don’t quite remember how to get the TOTP secret from the Steam app (they could in fact take notes from GOG here), iirc you have to extract it from the Android app via adb;
but once you have it, if this GitHub comment is correct you simply have to set the code size to 5 digits.
If your phone has a rooted Android install, I found this guide.
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What does GOG’s 2FA do that Steam’s 2FA doesn’t?
At a glance (haven’t enabled yet, will later today), GoG uses the RFC standard TOTP model. This means you can use whatever app you want whether that is the google authenticator that ties it to your cloud account, something related to your password manager (e.g. keepass or bitwarden), or even just a python script you have in a random directory. It gives you control of your 2FA and protects you in the event you lose a device without properly de-authenticating it.
Valve use their own model that, to my knowledge, is only accessible through the Steam mobile app. Which is a huge nightmare if you ever have a device stolen/damaged (and is why you back up the recovery code)
Just enabled. Yup, bog standard TOTP and they even provide the plaintext key so that I don’t have to extract it from a QR code.
Unless I’m missing something, Steam only does code to email 2FA, not an actual TOTP app
Steam works with a normal TOTP app for me, hell, it works with two normal TOTP apps for me
Teach a brother how? I swear I couldn’t find it anywhere in the account settings.
I don’t quite remember how to get the TOTP secret from the Steam app (they could in fact take notes from GOG here), iirc you have to extract it from the Android app via adb;
but once you have it, if this GitHub comment is correct you simply have to set the code size to 5 digits.
If your phone has a rooted Android install, I found this guide.
… I swear when I did it, it wasn’t this hard ._.