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by kuroguro 1984 days ago
If you root your phone you can get the secret out and use it with regular TOTP software that implements that variant (I forgot the name - I just know Bitwarden supports it).
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There are some desktop implementations of Steam TOTP client, so you don't even need a rooted phone, as long as you trust some random open source code. https://github.com/KeeTrayTOTP/KeeTrayTOTP#documentation
> In the case of Steam Mobile Authenticator the new output format was reverse engineered by various developers

Oh, so it was a custom one! Was convinced that it was a less used standard algo.