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shawabawa3 on Aug 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please turn on two-factor authentication

>edit: Hmm actually thought of a possible solution. Looking into how hard it'd be to port the Google Authenticator to a non-mobile platform so I can run it on my laptop.

Just install an android emulator, e.g. YouWave, and use that virtual android device to run GA.

tedchs on Aug 7, 2012 [–]

Google Authenticator uses the standard OATH protocol (note, this is not OAuth): http://www.openauthentication.org/specifications

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