> hardware tokens generally don't allow you to extract the private key
again.

Yep - sorry for any confusion there; I meant that you can use the Yubikey
to create a decrypted copy of the password store, *not* that one can
extract a decrypted copy of the private key from the Yubikey.

Cheers,
Steve

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, 12:16 GOYOT Martin, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> You might be interested in looking into something like hashicorp vault for
> shared secrets. The use case you are mentioning is a common yet Hard to
> deal with one that is solved by Vault for instance. I only know this tool
> but others might exist.
>
> Le ven. 22 févr. 2019 à 00:05, Tobias Girstmair <[email protected]> a
> écrit :
>
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:55:22AM +1300, Steve Gilberd wrote:
>> >Lars - nothing prevents the user from using the Yubikey to create a
>> >decrypted copy,
>>
>> hardware tokens generally don't allow you to extract the private key
>> again.
>>
>> >or re-encrypting to an additional key controlled by the
>> >user.
>>
>> agree. (or just keeping the plaintext around)
>>
>> >While a hardware token is a good idea, confiscating it doesn't
>> >provide a secure solution to denying an untrustworthy user access to the
>> >password store. The only safe option is to change the passwords.
>>
>> indeed. the OP might be interested in
>> https://github.com/ddevault/pass-rotate , a tool to help change
>> passwords on multiple online services automatically.
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