[Passwordsafe-devel] Thoughts on TOTP/HOTP support in PasswordSafe?

[Bill B. <de...@bl...>]

Hi all,

I've been considering implementing TOTP/HOTP support in PasswordSafe.
The idea is that you would be able to store the seed for a given
account, then have PasswordSafe generate the TOTP/HOTP code as needed
(instead of using something like Google Authenticator).

However, I've had some people (unrelated to this project) suggest that
this is a Bad Idea^TM.  Since I'm writing this email, it's probably obvious
that I disagree.  I'd be happy to explain my rationale if anyone wants to
discuss it.

I do think it would be convenient functionality to have for those of use
that would use it, and I'm willing to do the work.  Well, at least for
core and wx.  I could probably do the Windows implementation too, but I
haven't done Windows GUI programming in something like 20 years. As
such, if someone else wanted to handle that piece, I'd be grateful.

That said, I don't want to spend the time and effort needed to implement
it only to find out that everyone thinks I'm completely bonkers and that
it will never get merged.

So is this something I should pursue, or should I skip it?

Regards,
Bill

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