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Title: Desktop wallet with 2FA?
Post by: thesouljourner on December 22, 2013, 01:48:08 PM
Is there a desktop wallet client that uses two factor authentication?  I know it's an extra step of paranoid, but, well, that seems not entirely unjustified.  I googled, but to no avail... too hard to filter out the online wallets with 2FA.


Title: Re: Desktop wallet with 2FA?
Post by: flatfly on December 22, 2013, 02:10:03 PM
Is there a desktop wallet client that uses two factor authentication?  I know it's an extra step of paranoid, but, well, that seems not entirely unjustified.  I googled, but to no avail... too hard to filter out the online wallets with 2FA.

There are plans to implement 2FA support into Electrum. Not available yet.


Title: Re: Desktop wallet with 2FA?
Post by: Frost000 on December 22, 2013, 02:51:47 PM
Is there a desktop wallet client that uses two factor authentication?  I know it's an extra step of paranoid, but, well, that seems not entirely unjustified.  I googled, but to no avail... too hard to filter out the online wallets with 2FA.

There are plans to implement 2FA support into Electrum. Not available yet.

That's great news indeed for us paranoid folks! I'll be jumping on this update for sure.


Title: Re: Desktop wallet with 2FA?
Post by: bitpop on December 22, 2013, 08:15:35 PM
That would be dumb


Title: Re: Desktop wallet with 2FA?
Post by: thesouljourner on December 22, 2013, 08:59:34 PM
That would be dumb

Explain why?


Title: Re: Desktop wallet with 2FA?
Post by: bitpop on December 22, 2013, 09:03:19 PM
You can't authenticate offline.. It's like having a captcha locally. It makes no sense.


Title: Re: Desktop wallet with 2FA?
Post by: bitpop on December 22, 2013, 09:14:07 PM
Its why your windows password is useless. Once I have physical access, there is 0 security except encryption but that can be brute forced limitlessly. A server can throttle you.


Title: Re: Desktop wallet with 2FA?
Post by: Dithery on February 15, 2018, 01:42:46 PM
Currently I just have my wallet on my computer. Lets say someone has access to my computer, can they just copy it to an USB stick, and open it at home to do transactions with it?