Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierungsmethode für zusätzliche Sicherheit beim Login

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Just published some how-to videos to help users get started with two-factor (2FA) authentication

Hi! I’m hosting a private Discourse for a small community. Security is important so I opted to enforce 2FA login on the site. Naturally, 2FA can be unfamiliar to people and onboarding people have been a bit tricky. I recently spent some time creating instructional videos on how to setup 2FA for android and iOS. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons license. Hope it can be useful.

2FA - do we have to do anything to enable it?

I don’t believe it can be disabled, no. Also, no data is being sent to a third party. Here’s a quick summary of 2FA: Discourse implemented the TOTP (time-based one time password) algorithm. When a user decides to enable 2FA they are presented with a QR code (or a long string of characters). That string is used by an authentication app (like Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, Authy, YubiKey, etc.) to generate a new 6-digit password every 30 seconds. Those apps are in no way connected…