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Recovering an Authenticator From an exported WinAuth fileįrom a new or existing version WinAuth, click the “Add” button, choose “Import…” and select your backup file. You can provide your PGP key for the backup by adding a tag into your winauth.xml file, otherwise the default WinAuth PGP key is used.

Note: you must TURN OFF the “Encrypt to only be useable on this computer” setting before you make your copy.Īs a precaution, WinAuth also makes an automatic encrypted backup of each newly created authenticator into your registry, or.

Take a copy of the configuration file “\Users\ \AppData\Roaming\WinAuth\winauth.xml”.

Right-click each authenticator and choose “Show Secret Key…” then write down the key and keep it somewhere safe.

This creates a password protected zipped file that can be opened in any text editor to view your secret keys.

you lose or your YubiKey becomes faulty.

you re-install Windows without removing the protection.When you set any protection in WinAuth such as using a password, locking to the current user, or using a YubiKey, then your authenticator information is encrypted using the keys generated from those sources.įor this reason there is no password recovery, or any way to recover your information if your keys are lost.