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description: These tools assist you with securing your internet accounts with multifactor authentication without sending your secrets to a third party.
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<small>Protects against the following threat(s):</small>
[{{< badge content="Targeted Attacks" color="red" >}}](../../../wiki/basics/common-threats/_index.md#attacks-against-specific-individuals)
[{{< badge content="Targeted Attacks" color="red" >}}](../../../wiki/basics/common-threats/index.md#attacks-against-specific-individuals)
> [!NOTE]
> [Hardware security key recommendations](../../hardware/security-keys/_index.md) have been moved to their own category.
> [Hardware security key recommendations](../../hardware/security-keys/index.md) have been moved to their own category.
**Multifactor authentication apps** implement a security standard adopted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) called **Time-based One-time Passwords**, or **TOTP**. This is a method where websites share a secret with you which is used by your authenticator app to generate a six (usually) digit code based on the current time, which you enter while logging in for the website to check. Typically, these codes are regenerated every 30 seconds, and once a new code is generated the old one becomes useless. Even if a hacker gets one six-digit code, there is no way for them to reverse that code to get the original secret or otherwise be able to predict what any future codes might be.