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by syntonym 2612 days ago
As long as you have a passphrase and don't actually circumvent it (by e.g. an agent) you basically already have 2FA (you need access to the key (on your laptop/pc) and you need access to the passphrase (in your head)). But physical 2FA (like smartphone based ones or smartcard based ones) are nice because you can remove them from your computer or destroy them. You can't "destroy" a passphrase, so passphrase and sshkey are not really "independent".