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Re:Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key by patio11 on Monday May 01, 2017 @05:41PM (#14241958)
I will likely end up using this in personal capacity, and would also appreciate if the UX of using Google Authenticator were more similar to this, rather than requiring me to screenscrape my phone with my eyeball and then type information into another device (or, more painfully, another window on the same phone).

The easiest way to do that probably results in a callback to Big Daddy G every time I access anything sensitive and I'm cool with that.

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Re:Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key by pvg on Monday May 01, 2017 @07:48PM (#14242823)
The Google App can do this on iOS, rather than Google Authenticator, for some reason.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6361026?hl=en

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Re:Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key by jitl on Monday May 01, 2017 @09:15PM (#14243250)
With Apple's devices, you can copy-paste your 2nd factor token between devices, which makes things much more convenient. Although cloud copy-paste is still significantly slower than tapping "Allow" in a notification, it's lower friction than manually typing those numbers.

Although the security of cloud copy-paste I haven't investigated...

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Re:Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key by mhw on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @11:42AM (#14247290)
I've not checked how it works, but I don't think Universal Clipboard pushes the data that's being copy-pasted via the cloud. I've certainly used it to copy Wifi access codes from my phone to laptop when neither device had internet access, so I think it's implemented using peer-to-peer Bluetooth/Wifi.
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Re:Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key by plange on Monday May 01, 2017 @06:13PM (#14242204)
> The easiest way to do that probably results in a callback to Big Daddy G every time I access anything sensitive and I'm cool with that.

Why?!

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Re:Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key by kasey_junk on Monday May 01, 2017 @07:26PM (#14242700)
Because they have one of the most competent security teams in the world and enough money to mount legal defenses against governmental adversaries.

For many many threat models this pairing is a more competent defense than just about any thing a single person could come up with.

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Re:Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key by ktta on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:04AM (#14243880)
Although I'm a bit skeptical of its security, you might want to check out Authy.
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