Does anyone here have any experience with this software? Thanks.

8 years ago

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Sorry, no experience with the software- but I want to compliment your username/avatar combo.

8 years ago
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Thanks. One of my favorite shows.

8 years ago
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I use it. Haven't had any issues.

8 years ago
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I heard that there was a glitch where you couldn't confirm market confirmations. Has this been patched?

8 years ago
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I've been able to confirm everything just fine. Sometimes lags a bit, but nothing major.

8 years ago
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WinAuth doesn't touch steam it just implements the two factor auth that steam uses which is a standard, so VAC isn't an issue. Using it for single click market approvals is skirting the no market automation TOS clause though.

8 years ago
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I've been using it since the holds were introduced and it works great, no problems here! Pretty easy to recommend.

8 years ago
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It registers as a standard Android device and sends confirmations as such. So yes, it as is safe as any random noname brand Android mobile. (Or probably even more so, since WinAuth doesn't come with a pre-installed backdoor for the Chinese government. :D)

8 years ago
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I have been using it for years for my Battlenet and recently Steam. No issue with any ban whatsoever.

8 years ago
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Use Steam Desktop Authenticator instead. It even has encryption!

8 years ago
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Winauth:
"Security and Encryption
All private authenticator data is encrypted with your own personal password, salted and enhanced with key strengthening to reduce the ability for brute force attacks. The data can also be protected using Windows in-built Data Protection API, which will “lock” the data to a single computer or account, making it completely unusable if copied to another computer.

A YubiKey can be used to further enchance the protection by providing a secret key stored only on the YubiKey itself, and must be physically plugged into the computer before WinAuth can be opened.

Each authenticator can also additionally have its own secondary password that is required before any codes are decrypted, calculated and displayed.

Finally, all codes are drawn directly onto the screen to prevent any malware from “windows spying”."

8 years ago
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Compared to Steam's mobile app, it seems a lot more secure, especially if used on a secondary PC.

8 years ago
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Bump for more opinions :-)

SDA has been failing to handle confirmation lately, so I'm looking at this alternative...

7 years ago
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WinAuth is the best implementation of Steam 2FA from all I evaluated as "good" when implementing ASF 2FA.

In fact, ASF 2FA was initially based on SDA code, then I rewrote it entirely and now it's based on stripped-down WinAuth code, with my own ASF improvements.

Normally I'd say that ASF 2FA in its current form is the best, but it's not user friendly by definiton and not meant to be used as one, so I can say - definitely consider using WinAuth over SDA - SDA is really crappy, crappy to the point that I spent time rewriting working code into another one, and that takes enough time to think twice if it's worth doing in the first place.

7 years ago
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Thank you, this is very helpful. Now I just need to figure out how to remove SDA. For some reason they don't seem to document this, or at least don't make it very visible ;-)

7 years ago
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I've been using winauth for almost a year. Never had any problems. This guide was quite helpful.

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7 years ago
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Yes, no need to repost the same thread when my question is identical to this one.

7 years ago
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Using it since last year. No VAC problem. And it's very useful, give it a try!

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VAC applies only to VAC secured servers, the only way any third party software could trip it is if it was running whilst you were playing on said servers.

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