How To Generate The Two-Factor Authentication Codes in 1Password
How To Generate The Two-Factor Authentication Codes in 1Password
1Password has been one of the favorite password managers for a good reason. It has excellent features, such as the ability to generate a one-time passwords that you can quickly access when logging in to your online accounts.
1Password can store your passwords and also be your default authenticator app, too. Before taking you through how to set up two-factor authentication codes for various websites in 1Password, let’s start by talking about the cons and pros of using 1Password as your primary authenticator.
Should Password Manager be used to Generate One-Time Passwords?
If you’re using a password manager, you’re already on the right track for securing your online accounts. 1Password is counted among the best password managers out there, and you can also use it as your primary authenticator app for the two-factor authentication. This means that 1Password can store all of your passwords in addition to any of the codes you’d otherwise receive, either via SMS or an authenticator app such as Google Authenticator or Authy.
If you use 1Password to generate your one-time passwords (OTPs), you’ll gain a lot in terms of convenience. It’ll automatically back up and sync your OTPs across all the devices, and you’ll get the same level of security for these as you would for other of your stored data in 1Password. This means that your OTPs can be accessed from your computer and can also be accessed on your smartphone, which is more convenient than using only the smartphone authenticator apps.
1Password will also copy OTPs to the clipboard automatically when you’re logging in, which saves you a bit of time.
On the flip side, if your 1Password account is been compromised, all of your accounts are at risk. Assuming that you’ve afore time enabled your two-factor authentication on most accounts, using a different authenticator app, it could mitigate some of the risks.
Having said all this, most people are better off making use of some kind of two-factor authentication than none at all. If having your two-factor authentication codes available on all devices (as opposed to just on smartphones) is a huge enough advantage for you, then you should consider making use of a password manager that also acts as an authenticator app.
How to Add The Two-Factor Authentication Codes to 1Password
The process of adding the two-factor authentication codes to 1Password is quite very similar to adding it to Google Authenticator or Authy. We’ll take you through the steps.
Making the 1Password Your Authenticator App on iPhone and iPad
There are two major ways to add authenticator codes to your 1Password for iPhone.
A. One of these involves scanning the QR code, and the other involves
B. Pasting the secret code for the OTPs into 1Password.
The QR code method is useful if the code is shown on the other device.
However, it is not possible for you to scan a QR code from Safari on iPhone using 1Password’s iPhone app. Instead, you can just paste the authenticator’s secret code into 1Password. We’ll show you how to do these things.
1. Open 1Password on your iPhone and go to any of your stored logins. Tap “Edit” in the top-right corner.
2. Scroll down and tap “Add New One-Time Password.”
3. Tap "Add new one-time password"
4. This is where you have the two ways to proceed—either by entering a QR code or by pasting the authenticator secret code. For the former, first tap the QR code icon.
5. Tap the "QR code button"
6. Now scan the QR code and you’ll see six-digit codes in 1Password. Tap “Done” to save this.
7. Tap the one-time password to copy it
8. Alternatively, you can copy the authenticator secret code on any website that supports two-factor authentication and paste it into 1Password, and then tap “Done.”
