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0 pointsDonHopkins4y ago0 comments

Have you tried actually using that in practice? It's extremely clumsy and inconvenient, requiring a whole lot more pointing and clicking and waiting and typing to attach the file, look at its contents, copy its value, or even edit it, than a simple multi-line text field would require.

And in the common case that the text is only on my clipboard, for example if I copied it from a web page or shell, then I have to go to all the effort of first saving it locally into a file somewhere in the file system, before laboriously navigating to it again with 1Password (often having to wait for my USB hard drives to spin up again as my Mac is frozen for 50 seconds showing the file dialog that scans all the attached storage devices) and finally adding it as a file attachment.

And then after all that extra busy work, the plaintext secret file now is floating around unencrypted in my file system somewhere, which is exactly what I didn't need.

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chipotle_coyote4y ago

I support your request for basically making the "notes" field for 1Password entries into a field type, so you can have multiple ones.

Having said that, I admit I generally haven't missed them for the use case of SSH keys, even though I do occasionally store those in 1Password -- I use the Secure Notes feature for that. Copy the key to the clipboard with "cat ssh.key | pbcopy", make a new Secure Note, paste. I suppose it hadn't occurred to me to do anything else in part because, well, I can't -- but also because I don't think of these as username/password combinations, I think of them as "SSH for server foobar," and the search feature works perfectly well for that.

This is arguably a workaround instead of the ideal, but I actually use Secure Notes pretty frequently. WiFi base station passwords, recovery keys, personal access tokens, stuff that in general doesn't fit the "web site with username and password and possibly 2FA key" model I'm fairly sure I started this before 1Password even had a "Notes" field.

solarengineer4y ago

I store all my ssh keys as attachments. All my ssh keys are passphrase protected as well.

When I do download the keys, it isn’t much of an everyday activity either

I do not need to keep transferring ssh keys regularly to my Mac- it is either a one time or a set up related activity.

1Password is just fine for storing ssh keys as attachments.

Have you considered writing to them to ask for what you need?

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