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anilakar ◴[] No.41856170[source]
OK. Let me know when I can migrate FIDO credentials from old Yubikeys to new ones.

Earlier this year I almost lost a domain because $REGISTRAR forced 2FA and I had forgotten to add them to my key spreadsheet.

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ithkuil ◴[] No.41856221[source]
I think the whole point of yubikeys is to make this impossible.

IIUC basically these devices contain one single immutable random secret that is stored in a tamper proof hardware and can never leave the device nor be written into another device.

When you "create" new keys what actually happens under the hood is that a new value gets stored in flash memory which is the _combined_ with the hard secret with some key derivation scheme and the resulting secret is then the one used to perform cryptographic operations

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1. eikenberry ◴[] No.41864391[source]
> I think the whole point of yubikeys is to make this impossible.

It is and it is why Yubikeys are useless for most cases outside of the workplace.