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by light_cone 1504 days ago
First of all, _most_ services is not _all_ services, so you have a use case here.

Also, you could make FIDO keys that support restoring but not backing up. If you could set up a FIDO with custom random seed _as an expert option_, then you could have a secure key, and keeping the seed private would be your expert problem.

I would adopt such a solution, whereas now I don't adopt the proposed solution because I cannot add a new service while having the backup key remaining off-site.

Maybe another solution would be to be to have _absolutely all_ services accept several keys (enforced by protocol), in addition to be able to accept adding an off-site key with only its fingerprint, but without requiring to have it physically.