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Chubbly Mortise

10 Mar, 2012 06:20 AM

I've just come across the article regarding emergency access to 1Password should the normal user become incapacitated (euphemistically-speaking): http://vardy.me/the-1password-emergency-kit/ . Someone at AgileBits has even been in touch with the author regarding it.
It prompts me to request the possibility of using a Smart Card to access a 1Password database. I'd like to go further and additionally request:
1) the ability to assign more than one Smart Card to the same database.
2) the ability to designate a Smart Card as having privileges, allowing eg. read-only access to the database as a whole; no access at all to specified items or defined genres, such as all entries with the Private tag; denying sync of specified items or defined genres; und so weiter.
3) the ability to log Smart Card interaction

Obviously it can't work with the iOS version, but I'm not here to present the whole solution :)

The link between the article and this request is that it strikes me providing a 4 or 5-digit PIN, along with a Smart Card, is a far better solution than providing a whole list of information. The Smart Card could be held in the safe, as suggested in the article, whilst its PIN is held only in the Will or some such.

Thanks for listening.

1. 2 Posted by Chubbly Mortise on 10 Mar, 2012 08:13 PM

   

   On second thoughts, another way to approach this is to have the capability of assigning an emergency password to a 1Password keychain. This password would only allow Read-only access, and the user with the full-access password could choose which logins, etc. are viewable by those using the emergency password.

   It might also be an idea that you could specify that use of the emergency password immediately causes a notification to be sent to an email address, bringing attention to the use of the password.

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2. 3 Posted by Stu Helm on 11 Mar, 2012 02:02 PM

   

   Thanks for the feedback and suggestions, Chubbly, we're always happy to hear of ideas for how we can improve 1Password.

   I can't promise if we'll ever implement 'emergency access' to 1Password, but we never say never here.

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