Protected Recovery Phrases: Plan and Progress

You created an Internet Identity anchor and used it to log in to the NNS dapp, where you staked 10,000 ICPs in neurons for 8 years. A few months later, an attacker steals one of the devices you use to authenticate.

One very likely “device” to be stolen is IMHO a non-physical device, and that would in our case be the “recovery phrase”. Is there anything we can do to prevent this theft?

Maybe we can require entering multiple authentication and/or recovery devices in order to remove the “recovery phrase”? The actual required mix of the devices would be open for discussion, of course.

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