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> Additionally as long as you've got your secret, you can reinitialize your Nano S (or another one) as a new U2F device and there's no need to reset your U2F credentials on the site as the newly initialized device shall work exactly as if it was the old one.

But isn't it the whole point that these devices never let you have the secret?




The device GP is talking about is a cryptocurrency 'hardware wallet', so no.

You may have thought (as I did at first) they meant a Yubikey; there is after all also a model called 'Nano', but not, I think, 'Nano S'.


The devices don't let you extract the secret, however, they generally can be set up with a secret that you know.




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