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by Tomdarkness 2372 days ago
One thing I immediately noticed is that apparently it supports exporting full backups of the device? Surely this is a terrible idea? I'm far from a security expert but I'd have thought you'd want to make it so that it is extremely difficult to extract key material from a security key, not offer it as a feature?
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The backups are automatically encrypted with a private key you save onto the device (obviously the key is not part of the backup). To restore a backup onto the same device or a new OnlyKey, you first have to load the same private key that encrypted your backup.