[jagged-chisel]

The general consensus has been that you create a key pair per client computer that you use. If one is stolen (say your laptop), you login from your desktop and revoke the stolen key. If the hard drive fails, you login from another client.

I don’t see much difference between that and storing the key on a TPM. If you have one key and you lose access to that key, then you lose access to the server.

Point: you need a backup key anyway.

[jamiesonbecker]

One key per device is exactly what we recommend too. Private keys should always be protected as much as possible within that device and should never leave that device.

Just paste all of your devices' public keys into your authorized_keys file and leave a comment at the end for what device it's for. in Userify, it literally goes right into your nodes' authorized_keys file almost verbatim. (disclaimer: I work at https://Userify.com)

And then, if you leave your token or laptop at the airport or whatever, just remove that key right from your phone and it'll take effect in seconds across all the nodes/instances (if you're using Userify) or you can just write a quick for-inline-sed loop to remove it from your authorized keys everywhere.