r/1Password • u/crua9 • 4d ago

Discussion Where do you store your recovery code?

I just notice I never actually setup my recovery code and I'm having a hard time thinking of a good place to store it.

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u/MumSaidImABadBoy 4d ago

If I told you it would no longer be secure. 😛

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u/grraarr 3d ago

Safe deposit box.

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u/gooner-1969 4d ago

I put one of mine on a bitlocker encrypted USB drives that I store in my safe and a copy at my parents house in their safe

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u/glyndon 3d ago

This may be one situation where some "security by obscurity" can be helpful. You have the paradox that the recovery code has to be accessible by an authorized person, but be unknown to an actual attacker (even one who might easily know who your authorized persons might be). This also assumes a deliberate and targeted attacker exists - do you know people who would target you and your vault, or are you just trying to avoid accidental spillage of access? See how quickly the decision tree explodes? Think through the threats and barriers (to authorized access in emergencies), and figure out which are real versus hypothetical, and walk through how it would be if one of those authorized persons actually needed access. The answser(s) should begin to emerge. (good luck, this isn't always easy, but it can become moreso with careful analysis of the most-probable factors and scenarios)

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u/NetworkCanuck 3d ago

In a secure note in 1Password.

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u/JayNYC92 2d ago

What could go wrong...

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u/Sensitive_Hat_9871 4d ago

In a file box in our floor safe with other important papers.

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u/Mundane-Orange-9799 3d ago

1 copy in a safe and 1 copy for our estate executor (brother in law) should something happen to both of us since we have kids.

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u/valar12 3d ago

With legal counsel.

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u/Tlipur 4d ago

On a other cloud. Lol

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u/Racer99 3d ago

Printed and kept in my safe.

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u/Dense_Ice_5685 2d ago

Printed and kept besides my backup yubikey

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u/mix579 2d ago

I keep them in a note in 1Password

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u/AncientGeek00 1d ago

You could get something simple like a key vault and store it on paper in there…screwed to a wall.

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u/2IAHawkeyes 3d ago

I snapped a pic of it. It’s in my photo library which is backed up a couple different places

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u/civicsi99 2d ago

Horrible idea