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Anonymous
4 years agoIs multi-factor authentication really useful for a 1Password account?
I use multi-factor authentication, preferably hardware security keys, wherever I can. But I’m having a hard time seeing what protection I’d get from it on my 1Password account, and adding it increase...
Anonymous
4 years agoBecause 1Password is based on encryption and not authentication, adding 2FA to it has less benefits than it would normally have for an authentication-based system.
That puts it well. I was trying to put my finger on why 1Password was different from every other service that I do protect with 2FA, and it’s that the security of those services depends on making sure the person accessing them is really me, where the security of 1Password depends on the strength and secrecy of my keys. It really shouldn’t matter to me who you give my encrypted database to.
Thanks!