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Security with "Use the Trusted Platform Module with Windows Hello"
When using "Use the Trusted Platform Module with Windows Hello", 1Password prompts with a security warning.
- How can another app gain access to 1Password with this setting?
- Is there a way ...
If your computer doesn't have a TPM, Windows emulates some of its functionality in software. With a hardware TPM, things like the secret to unlock 1Password survives a reboot, so you can unlock 1Password after a reboot with just your Hello pin. With the software emulation, such stuff is kept in protected CPU memory only, so you need to enter your 1Password master password once to unlock after a reboot. Additional unlocks are with PIN, since the secret to unlock is kept in memory - until next reboot. What survives a reboot even with the software emulation is the ability to login to Windows itself.
