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Life & fun · March 22, 2020

My Yubikey Setup with Pass

I upgraded my encryption setup recently, so I thought I should write about it, just in case it is helpful to someone else. As a security professional, I have a different threat model from most folks, and as such my setup does involve a bit more complexity than what I’d recommend to everyone. But if

My Yubikey Setup with Pass launched on March 22, 2020 with 5 votes, #1,643 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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I upgraded my encryption setup recently, so I thought I should write about it, just in case it is helpful to someone else. As a security professional, I have a different threat model from most folks, and as such my setup does involve a bit more complexity than what I’d recommend to everyone. But if you are an at-risk individual (journalist, person holding hundreds of bitcoins or other digital asse

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