Google encrypts “data in transit, and at rest, across our products, including in Google Authenticator,” adding E2EE would come at the “cost of enabling users to get locked out of their own data ...

This project is an open source fork of the Google Authenticator Android app on the Play Store.While this fork is open source, the official version of the app still remains proprietary. There is no ...

Google Authenticator first launched in 2010, and the app—which stores and generates two-factor authentication (2FA) codes—lacked backups and multi-device support for years. It made ...

On Monday, Google Authenticator launched the ability to sync 2FA codes to your Google Account. It has since emerged that the capability isn’t end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), ...

Google Authenticator’s new cloud-syncing feature could be a security risk due to its lack of end-to-end encryption. The tech giant says it decided to forego E2E encryption to prevent users from ...

Running Google Authenticator on your mobile device is an effective way to protect your online accounts and logins with two-factor authenticator codes. But in the past, those codes would appear ...

Google’s Authenticator App Just Got a Handy New 2FA Tool You can now sync sign-in codes across devices—but they aren’t end-to-end encrypted. Photograph: Rasid Necati Aslim/Getty Images ...

Google says it will bring end-to-end encryption to Google Authenticator’s new account-syncing feature after facing criticism for not including it with the update.

As of today, Google Authenticator will now sync any one-time two-factor authentication (2FA) codes that it generates to users’ Google Accounts. Previously, one-time Authenticator codes were ...