Hello,
Does an emergency access heir get the TOTP codes when if the original vault was using the built-in authenticator.
Thanks
Hello,
I currently do not use the integrated authenticator functionality. Can anyone tell me if a grantee in the emergency access workflow will also receive the TOTP codes and seeds when they inherit a vault. This would be beneficial in the estate planning process.
Thanks
I never tested it myself - and it doesn’t seem to be explicitly in the Help Sites - BUT: in any free BW account, you can add and read authenticator keys (in “Edit view”). The only thing that doesn’t work is, to get the TOTP codes from the “seed codes”.
So I would assume, that when you have full access to the login items (either in view/read or as “takeover”), you can also access/read/“copy” the seed code / authenticator key.
Here shown for a free BW account - code doesn’t get created…:
… but you can see/read/copy the seed code in “Edit”:
Thank You for the fast response. I am currently a happy premium customer. I will have to test this as well. 2FA is great until you start thinking about estate planning and digital assets.
There could be a scenario where the passwords are inherited but 2FA devices are not available, lost or not known or accounted for. In that case the estate would still have difficulty accessing the assets or be locked out forever.
Add to the fact the inheritance receiver may not be that tech savvy. There are different methods to mitigate this with one time recovery codes, offline recovery codes, etc but the goal is to keep it easy and rock solid. Having the ability to use one type of 2FA for critical estate accounts and the ability to pass that on to a new device would be very beneficial.
Now if only all services support authenticators as many are very behind in this. Banks are notoriously behind on this in my jurisdiction.
Cheers