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You have to provide the secret key to each device on initial setup. After that, you just need your password.

What if you're in a foreign location and your devices are all stolen or lost?

You'd have to contact someone to get the secret key from your 1Pass emergency kit, wherever you stored it. That is, unless you can memorize long strings of numbers really well.

Then you have a much bigger and immediate problem at hand.

Not really. The biggest, most immediate and most threatening problem in this scenario, is inability to access your passwords, and therefore inability to use banking and means of electronics communication.

What do you mean?

There's a tourist experiencing this scenario probably every minute.

This is why 1Password provides an emergency kit where you can record your secret key and store it securely.

How you choose to safeguard it depends on your preferences and your "threat level".

For example, you can keep it in a bank vault or print multiple copies to store it under your pillow, taking a picture, or save it in your email, etc.

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