Storing 2FA codes is just the beginning. Bitwarden aims to add defense in depth to authentication.
Bitwarden Authenticator is a standalone app that is available for everyone, even non-Bitwarden customers.
In its current release, Bitwarden Authenticator generates time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) for users who want to add an extra layer of 2FA security to their logins.
There is a comprehensive roadmap planned with additional functionality.
This is actually really good of them to realize that there is a market for another, separate, 2FA app to be honest.
I don’t trust or like Google nor Microsoft. Authy is crap and going down the drain.
Using 2FAS now but not really feeling it.
If I could self host this and have redundancy/offsite backups I would probably move to this separate solution (Outside of regular Bitwarden).
Keeping the passwords and 2fa tokens in the same app is like writing the password on a post-it underneath the keyboard.
Re Authy:
Still use it for the backup and restore. I had a phone die in me and without that feature, i would have been locked out of so many accounts. Happy to switch if something better comes along, but backup is a must for me (and not via Google...)
This new Bitwarden 2FA does backup and restore! It was also important to me, as I had a phone stolen one time and without my backed up "emergency codes", I'd been SOL! :)
The phone being inside you is probably why it died 😂
But on a serious note, I haven't switched to passkeys because I don't have a clear mental model of how to recover from losing both my phone and computer at the same time.
To be fair, a lot of sites that I consider “low security” are starting to mandate 2fa. Password manager is perfect place for these, I have more going on in my life than copying numbers from device 1 to device 2 to get my garbage picked up.
Why do you think its not safe? If you trust bitwarden to protect your passwords what exactly do you think is going to happen?
Even if bitwarden is compromised in someway in the future, all that data is still encrypted and would still be highly unlikely to actually be accessed in any usable form.
The only risk is if you use a bad master password. Which is the biggest risk of using a password manager regardless.
Seems a bit odd to roll this out without having the ability to import from other authenticators (at least on android). Feels like a pretty basic feature.
Cool idea for anyone who doesn't already use Bitwarden for their passwords, but I would be awfully sceptical of having my passwords and 2FA codes stored on the same service - only one breach required to royally screw me up
True. While it's definitely more secure than their other 2FA offering (storing them with your passwords), it's still the same developers making both - so it still feels like putting all my eggs in one basket.
For IOS I can see this as a valid option, because unless you are willing to trust Microsoft, Google, or Authy with your 2FA, which I personally don't think one should, then you haven't got too many options.
But on Android there are plenty others that are known to be reliable, Aegis for example, so the value proposition is lessened for me at least.