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The problem I had while my company phone got remote wiped: Google Authenticator uses a protobuf based export qr code, which any other 2FA app doesn't support.

I wrote a small cli tool that can export all data inside it, and that tries to generate qrcode images for each entry for re-import into another 2fa app.

I hope this can help someone with the same problem, I got stuck with a camera photo of this seemingly useless qrcode for a couple hours until I built my tool.

Always remember to backup google authenticator, and always make a physical backup of your encrypted passwords database!

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/qrcode-extractor



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