Manually add account to Google Authenticator - Enter key in Base32 Encoding

wanted to use OpenID with Multi-factor authentication as a Single Sign-On (SSO) for online services; in particular, i wanted to combine a regular password with a One-Time Password namely, a TOTP token.

Google Authenticator supports TOTP, and not only for their own 2-step verification but one can “Manually add” other accounts.

The bridging part from TOTP to OpenID, in my case, comes from Clavid (cf. OTP@Clavid).

Now to the tiny bit of information that might save you quite some minutes: when entering your secret key into these two locations to set-up an account

• Google Authenticator expects the string to be RFC4648 Base32 encoded
• Clavid expects the string to be hex encoded