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0 pointsBoorishBears8y ago0 comments

It's remembering one password vs X, and it is pretty hard to remember in my case, almost 4 months into using this password and I still struggle to type it in correctly sometimes

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simias8y ago

Yeah I was just kidding, I see what the parent meant.

Now I use a hardware token (yubikey) to store my PGP key so I can use a relatively weak PIN code on it (since you need to have physical access to the device to use it and you only have 3 attempts before it locks up). It's a pretty good quality of life improvement.

majewsky8y ago

> you only have 3 attempts before it locks up

Then you better don't use it when you're fatigued or drunk. I nearly locked my SIM card once by not realizing until the third attempt that my phone was asking for the SIM card PIN rather than my lockscreen PIN.

simias8y ago

There's also an "admin PIN" that can be used to unlock the key if something goes wrong. It's more complicated than my regular PIN and I didn't memorize it so that should be enough as a defensive measure against drunk me.

Well, unless I'm silly enough to try and bruteforce that PIN as well, after 3 failures I'd be left with an expensive piece of plastic... Fortunately I'm rarely that drunk.

EDIT: Actually as the sibling comment points out you can still reset the token even if you mess up the admin PIN. So at least you won't "brick" your token completely.

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simias8y ago

Yeah I was just kidding, I see what the parent meant.

majewsky8y ago

> you only have 3 attempts before it locks up

simias8y ago

Well, unless I'm silly enough to try and bruteforce that PIN as well, after 3 failures I'd be left with an expensive piece of plastic... Fortunately I'm rarely that drunk.

EDIT: Actually as the sibling comment points out you can still reset the token even if you mess up the admin PIN. So at least you won't "brick" your token completely.

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