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> It's a few extra steps up front, but once it's working, it's so much easier. It's a few extra steps per site. Every time you get a new device you need to go

> It's a few extra steps up front, but once it's working, it's so much easier. It's a few extra steps per site. Every time you get a new device you need to go back to every site you've ever visited and update the credentials. It is maybe feasible for a few important accounts but it doesn't scale. Whatever solution we have needs to be syncable and able to be exported to a safe once and continue to be usable by new sites and devices into the future. People aren't going to print out their credential list every month to update the fire safe.

jmbwell 4y ago
The now-unfortunately-named "Password managers" help with this by providing various mechanisms to sync keys with multiple devices, so that every time you get a new device, you simply need to authenticate and transfer the key store to the new device. The device's hardware security facilities are there to protect the keystore. They aren't /the/ keystore. Find a key manager. iCloud Keychain, Microsoft Authenticator, Bitwarden, something. Use that. Concerns about migrating devices dissolve away.