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The only time your Master Password is stored outside of your vault (in the Keychain, and not in plaintext) is if you enable Touch ID for 1Password.

While in fact your Master Password may be stored in your vault, in practice that is of no benefit to you or an attacker. This is no worse an idea than locking the combination to the safe inside the safe: you still effectively only have it in your brain, and if you don't having it in the safe won't help you.

What's the threat you're concerned about? For someone to access your Master Password in the login item in your account, they already have to have access to your account and unless you gave them access to it, that means they already know at least your Master Password (for unlocking an already-authorized app or browser).

It's important to keep a few things in mind: We're here for you if you have more questions.

I can understand why it might seem strange to have it stored somewhere other than your brain since that's what you're used to - but keep in mind that unless someone knows your master password and Secret Key, they won't be able to access that data in the first place. Of course, if you don't want to have your account credentials stored in a Login item, you're more than welcome to delete it.

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Because Touch ID is also starting to be included with Macs, and many Android devices also have a fingerprint scanner, having this Login item should help many customers avoid this problem in the future.

Otherwise, they would need to create a brand new account with a new master password and migrate all their data from the old account to the new one. If they can still unlock the app with Touch ID, they can check that Login item to remember their master password.

Secert password wizard update#

That Login item also has the special ability to automatically update itself if you change your master password or regenerate your Secret Key.Ī more important reason for that Login item is that we noticed a lot of customers who mainly use 1Password on iOS devices would use Touch ID to unlock the app and eventually forget their master password. After all, filling sign-in forms on websites is one of the biggest (and coolest) features of 1Password! :) If you've been using 1Password for a while then you already know how that works, but it's really helpful for brand new customers who aren't familiar with it yet. There are additional reasons for the Login item, and one of those is that it allows you to use the 1Password browser extension to sign into your account on. The other Starter Kit items are a Secure Note ("Welcome to 1Password!") and an Identity item. The reason for those items in general is to help a new 1Password user understand and learn about the app. Thank you for your feedback about that, and I'm sorry it was an unwelcome surprise for you! That Login item is part of what we call the "Starter Kit", which is a small group of items added to your Personal / Private vault when creating a new account. I know that it is encrypted by some Jedis of the Galaxy algorithms, but anyway. You should really make this optional (an option enabled by default but deactivatable during the account creation wizard). Until now the only storage device, as I know of, that stored my master password was my brain. The only thing I'm not happy with is that after creating a 1Password account, I found a new entry with both my secret key AND my master password.