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Comment by BoppreH

Nope! You could have one "master recovery key", the public part loaded on your device (to be registered during account creation) and the private part sitting in your safe. Or even a number of pre-generated recovery keys. You could also give those keys a higher "priority", since they're offline, so that they can revoke lesser keys in case of account compromise.

I proposed a protocol with this feature almost a decade ago: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343318317_Privacy-a...

The problem is that the passkey protocol prevents you from adding a (additional) key you don't currently control. This is what crote was referencing here:

> Passkeys have to be online to enroll additional keys, so any kind of software or smartphone solution is going to depend completely on cloud sync.

parent BoppreH 19 days ago

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