• flynnguy@programming.dev
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    20 hours ago

    Email is considered insecure as a 2nd factor. TOTP stands for Time-based One-Time Password. Usually you store a seed and that combined with the time generates a time based password. If someone intercepts it, it’s only valid for a certain time frame (I think about a minute or so), after which it’s invalid.

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      5 hours ago

      Yes but email is only a second factor when used in addition to a first factor (e.g. password). If it’s just magic link without password, then email is the only factor