Option to use the app without secure-storage / biometrics

[vishnukvmd]

In offline mode, we generate a random key and encrypt the 2FA secrets with this key before persisting them to disk.

This key is then stored on the device's secure-storage, which requires biometrics – that might be unavailable on some devices.

What we could do is provide an option to not use secure-storage, and instead encrypt the key with a passphrase, and prompt for this passphrase each time on app-start. Doing this will make the app accessible on devices that do not support biometric authentication.

[rollsicecream]

Any updates?

[woowoo803]

Also interested in this. While I have biometrics on my phone it falls back to allowing my phone PIN so if someone observes me entering my PIN they can steal my phone and then can access all my TOTP codes. Having a strong password which needs to be entered each time would prevent this

[digitalfredy]

Will be great to have at least this option right now as workaround because in my case it just does not work.

Probably the cheap phone miss an android component related with biometrics (that enables the PIN option), if this is the case there is any app I cold install to get the biometrics dialog with falls back to PIN?

[vizzxc]

I am also interested in this feature. I opt not to use biometrics on my phone because I do not trust Samsung with that information. I would much rather prefer a pin or password feature to access my 2FA codes on the app.

[wiki-Bird]

Also interested in this. While I have biometrics on my phone it falls back to allowing my phone PIN so if someone observes me entering my PIN they can steal my phone and then can access all my TOTP codes. Having a strong password which needs to be entered each time would prevent this

This feature is the only thing holding me back from switching to ente auth from authy. I will not use an authenticator that relies on the same passcode as my phone for the reason listed above.