Keyhop: Migrate off Google Authenticator

Many years ago I adopted Google Authenticator for one time passwords, and it has quietly followed me from phone to phone ever since. Each move works the same way: the old phone displays an export QR code, the new phone scans it, and the accounts hop over. That works fine until you want to leave. I’ve wanted to switch to an app with a better backup story for a while, but I didn’t want to log into every service and re-enroll two factor auth one account at a time. The export QR code clearly contains everything a new phone needs, so I figured there had to be a way to extract that information myself. …

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