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> When you lose your YubiKey or someone else gets access to it, your database is not secure anymore.

You don't store your password on the YubiKey, you use it as a second factor in addition to your password.

Do you know what a YubiKey is when you argue against it?



You can add different kinds of authentication to your password safe. I use a password and a key file. You can use just the Yubikey just like you can also have no encryption applied to the password safe.




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