Thanks!
I didn’t see this stated in the docs anywhere, but am I correct in assuming that you can have any number of devices linked to your account, and that you need two devices to contribute their key to unlock a password […]
First of, there is no “account”. Instead, you link devices together by pairing them which establishes trust between those devices.
Yes, you can link as many devices as you want, and for unlocking your passwords you can use any of those trusted devices to confirm.
It’s also possible to chose a security level of e.g. 3 which means you’d need to confirm the unlock on two other devices.
Also, I guess NoKey has the risk that if you lose access to enough devices, you can no longer unencrypt anything
That’s correct. That’s why there is a warning on the home screen if you have only as many devices as the highest security level in use, as losing a device in that situation would lock you out of your own passwords.
Has this been a problem for any NoKey users in practice?
There have not been many NoKey users yet
, only a very small group of people so far. This is the first time I shared this in public.
Do you think there are any good solutions to this problem?
There is an optional way to unlock your passwords even if you only have one device:
I call this feature “key boxes”. It’s a password protected box that contains an additional key.
This way, by remembering a good password you can still unlock passwords saved with level 2 on one device. This could be useful when losing all devices except one. But if you chose a weak password, you lower the total security.
Those were great questions, thanks for your interest!