I was just reading a thread from last year about this but it must be closed I wasn’t able to post in it. I completely understand your wanting to discontinue supplying the Blizzard Branded authenticators. My question to that is, If I bought a Vasco Digipass Go6 (that is the original model) either directly from Vasco or may be from AuthStrong could I then add that to my account?
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No, unfortunately not. Only the mobile and existing blizz physical authenticators are viable right now.
Personally, I find the mobile version superior to the old fob I had 
Keep in mind that the mobile version can be added to a phone or tablet too.
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Yeah I bought one of the originals. Battery died years ago, before I even came back to the game. When I finally dug it up it was completely dead. Now it’s just an ornament.
I prefer the phone app anyway. Makes things much simpler. I almost always have my phone.
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Interesting I would have thought it was just a low level algorithm taking into account serial number, date and time to generate a specific code type thing in which case I could imagine the them not working unless maybe Manufacture Date is in there too. My wife and I play together we have gone back and forth with Physical and Digital, and just found that the physical suits our needs better. Partly because I worked at MS for a long time and as such had their phones so there were not any devices in my house that ran the digital auths. Allowing us to buy them strait from the manufacture or even just putting any 3rd party 2FA on the account would take away their overhead and supply the people that still want them a way to have them, allow 2 2FA devices per account idk. Just haven’t been happy with the App is all.
It is. But the serial #'s have to be added to a database on the RSA server. The Blizzard ones are (obviously). If you just get a generic one from RSA, it won’t be.
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I have one of the old old physicals ones from back when they first started to sell them… Funny thing is… The damn thing STILL after all these years works 
I haven’t had to change to one of the mobil ones yet XD
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How so? Just curious as I am considering switching to the app. The fob is obviously going to be more secure, but I’m sure the app is secure enough.
A few reasons:
- I don’t have to stare at a tiny screen trying to see what numbers are on it and type them back out my computer
- The requests are sent directly to the app for me to approve or deny with a simple click
- With the codes from the app, I can recreate the same authenticator on a different device if I want to use an old cell phone as a backup etc.
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Could you provide some information on whatever you use now. I have an old one and am afraid soon it’s going to crash/wear out, and I want something besides my password.
Thanks.
Perl’s talking about the same authenticator you use, just in mobile form rather than the little fob.
You can download it for free directly from Google Play or the App Store.
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Even Bill Gates switched to Android-based phones years ago.
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That’s the main reason I’m thinking about it.
Are there any options for someone who does not have a smart phone or tablet? I have been trying to find information about this to no avail.
While I’ve never personally tried this, so I can’t offer too much in the way of support for it, I’ve heard of people using an Android emulator for Windows and successfully installing the application on that.
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Something to bear in mind with this solution is that if your PC is compromised, so is your authenticator, presumably.
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Keep in mind that while there are certainly some minimum requirements, the application should run on some relatively old devices.
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Thank you, Perl for this, I will look into it. And thank you, Teufelgott for the security reminder 
although I would think a PC would be more secure than a mobile device with no virus/adware/malware scanning and no ad blocker, especially since they use wireless internet connections which are by their nature less secure. (I have no idea about phone service type data connections as I have never used those)
The point is, if the authenticator and thre PC are the same device, it defeats the purpose of two-factor authentication. Your account wouldn’t be any more secure than if you had no authenticator.
Yep. I use an old refurbished iPod Touch, but you can also use older model smartphones. You don’t need to activate it as a phone; just need the wifi signal.
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One of my children may have an old device that would work, my issue with those things is I can’t really use touch screens (they don’t register my cold hands). If I don’t have to touch it much it might work. (I don’t really know how authenticators work)