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We can just use phones or USB sticks as signing keys, for anything and everything — why does nobody talk about/want/demand this?!


This is used heavily by hardware tokens like Yubikeys, and especially for cryptocurrency people with so called "hardware wallets" like Trezor and Ledger (which can generate many subkeys on the devices).

Companies like Google now have employees issues with Yubikeys [1].

[1] https://www.yubico.com/resources/reference-customers/google/


We do it all the time with our phones with Apple Pay/Google Pay.




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