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Dropbox has a b lwa taversie of his client put online that offers support for two step authentication. If this is enabled, users have an sms-controlled or via an app generated code to enter when logging in.

If two step authentication is enabled a user needs to from a new location or a new device logs on to Dropbox in addition to his username and password and also a verification code to fill in. The verification codes via sms to be sent, but users can also an app to use codes to generate. Any app that works with the Time-based One-Time Password protocol can be used. Android, iOS, and BlackBerry users can, for example, Google’s Authenticator app.

The beta version is on the forum of Dropbox offered to users and is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Dropbox puts on a page in its Help Center on how the option should be configured. After installation of the new beta to users through the website of Dropbox to indicate that they are two-step-authentication and want to use. When the enable is also a backup code will be generated that users can access their account if they for any reason not vertificatiecode can receive or generate.

Dropbox announced the support for two-step-authentication at the end of July, after it was known that on accounts of different users was logged in with data that a hack on another website gathered. One of those accounts belonged to a Dropbox employee, who in his Dropbox a file, containing e-mail addresses of an unknown number of users. The company suspects that this list is used for spam emails to send.