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What secondary means of authentication do you guys use? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by ScaNtuRd@lemmy.world to c/keepass@lemmy.world

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Keyfile? YubiKey? Both? I, myself, use just use a standard keyfile that I generated with KeePass. This should be plenty secure along with a strong password.

Some guy once showed me a neat trick. Instead of generating the keyfile in KeePass, he would instead generate a very long password, paste it into a txt file, and use that as a keyfile. That way, it is much easier to backup, since it is just a single-line string of text. It can even be backed up as a QR code very easily.

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[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

YubiKey 👍

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How's that working on mobile? Support on KeepassDX seems nice. Sorry to Necro.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use KeepassDX w/ "Key Driver"

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same! Shit just works, it's dope.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

For real! Yubikeys are such a convenient 2FA method, I highly recommend to anyone reading this. (ALWAYS BUY TWO KEYS)

[–] aqua@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I use the password alone.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same, but my password is very long and based on an easily locatable publication (i.e. a book in the public domain).

[–] ScaNtuRd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Be careful not to reveal too much info haha

[–] ScaNtuRd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

That should be sufficient in my opinion, as long as your password has lots of entropy! I am the kind of person that puts locks on locks (metaphorically speaking), so I have a very complicated password and a keyfile.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I haven't actually looked into the key files; I only use a long (>25-char) password... Hmm... If it could be just a string of text then I suppose you'd want to obfuscate it with an unexpected filename, huh?