How do programs with 2fa enabled keep track of the 2fa code, since it changes in a short time span and there’s many different ways / apps to generate said code?

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How do programs with 2fa enabled keep track of the 2fa code, since it changes in a short time span and there’s many different ways / apps to generate said code?

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The number of different ways to generate a code is irrelevant – you just generate one and send it to the user, while storing it at the server level with an exipry time. The user then has to use the code within this time.

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