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Standardise on 'Backup Code' or 'Recovery Code' #300

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dd32 opened this issue Aug 20, 2024 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #304
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Standardise on 'Backup Code' or 'Recovery Code' #300

dd32 opened this issue Aug 20, 2024 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #304
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dd32 commented Aug 20, 2024 •
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As raised in WordPress/wordpress.org#358 (comment) I've been using 'Recovery code' in text, but wporg-two-factor uses Backup Codes.

Upstream in the two-factor plugin, they were renamed to Recovery Codes (albeit, by me) in WordPress/two-factor#521

That upstream rename has flowed through to the login screen:
Screenshot 2024-08-20 at 11 43 07 AM Screenshot 2024-08-20 at 11 43 22 AM
Screenshot 2024-08-20 at 11 46 36 AM Screenshot 2024-08-20 at 11 46 56 AM

These are not at all a "backup" (a copy of..) nor are they intended on active use by the holder, rather, it's intended on being an emergency-access or "recover your account access" type scenario. At least in my mind. It may be better to call them Emergency Account Access token even.

We should just standardise on one or the other, whatever that may be.
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dd32 commented Aug 20, 2024

WordPress.com Screenshot 2024-08-20 at 11 48 43 AM WordPress.com calls them Backup codes, but also has a separate 'Recovery' process.
GitHub Screenshot 2024-08-20 at 11 49 43 AM GitHub calls it a recovery code, and also has a 2FA recovery process
Google Screenshot 2024-08-20 at 11 55 10 AM Calls them Backup Codes
Facebook Screenshot 2024-08-20 at 11 57 26 AM Calls them Recovery Codes
Slack Screenshot 2024-08-20 at 11 58 41 AM Calls them Backup Codes

It appears that it doesn't really matter what it's called, as long as it's documented somewhere. Most of the services that use Backup seem to also have a Recovery process.

bazza pushed a commit to WordPress/wordpress.org that referenced this issue Aug 20, 2024
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Login: 2FA: Add a post-login nag to setup backup codes when either no…
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…ne are saved or the user is running really low on them.

This will hopefully reduce the number of users who become locked out of their account after losing their authentication key / device / etc.

Merges #358
Fixes WordPress/wporg-two-factor#279
See WordPress/wporg-two-factor#300, WordPress/wporg-two-factor#275


git-svn-id: https://meta.svn.wordpress.org/sites/trunk@13982 74240141-8908-4e6f-9713-ba540dce6ec7
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Update backup code language to recovery code. WordPress/wporg-two-factor
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