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Comment by MBCook

3 days ago

Genius. I love it.

I was reading about keyboard firmware last night and saw the ability to do “tap dances”, where a series of specific key presses in short order can trigger a predefined action.

It instantly occurred to me how useful it would be to be able to quickly type “QWE” and have one long complex password input for you automatically. Then “ZXC” for another, etc.

Of course flashing your passwords directly into your keyboard firmware is probably a pretty big security no-no.

But all the places that love to enforce constant password changes with super specific rules sure make something like that sound appealing.

You don't even need to go full keyboard. You can flash qmk or similar firmware to a single key device. You now have something like a yubikey, that only ever outputs one password