Google says it has no immediate plans to add end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to its Authenticator app, but the company’s product manager Christiaan Brand says it will offer the feature in the future.<\/p>\n
His words came in response to criticism from security researchers over Google’s failure to include the feature in its account-syncing update for Authenticator<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n He said<\/a><\/strong> the company “plans to offer E2EE for Google Authenticator down the line”.<\/p>\n “Right now, we believe that our current product strikes the right balance for most users and provides significant benefits over offline use,” said Brand.<\/p>\n “However, the option to use the app offline will remain an alternative for those who prefer to manage their backup strategy themselves.”<\/p>\n He highlighted the risk of users being locked out of their data without any means of recovery.<\/p>\n “We encrypt data in transit, and at rest, across our products, including in Google Authenticator,” said Brand.<\/p>\n “E2EE is a powerful feature that provides extra protections, but at the cost of enabling users to get locked out of their own data without recovery.”<\/p>\n While being a welcome change, Google’s account-syncing update for Authenticator raised some security concerns as attackers that breach someone’s Google account could potentially gain access to several other accounts.<\/p>\n However, if E2EE were to be implemented for Authenticator, malicious actors and other third parties, including Google, wouldn’t be able to see this information.<\/p>\n Google didn’t include end-to-end encryption in its account-syncing update for authenticator, raising concerns that attackers could access multiple accounts’ information if they breach a Google account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":478985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13773,36075,167,51321],"class_list":["post-489349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-christiaan-brand","tag-end-to-end-encryption","tag-google","tag-google-authenticator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489363,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489349\/revisions\/489363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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