Setup Yubikey

We will now Setup your "salt" password and use that to create a master password

You will need:

• 1 Yubikey (https://www.yubico.com/)

• 1 Apricorn Aegis encrypted flash drive (https://apricorn.com/flash-keys/)

• Live USB running on your PC

Make sure this is all executed in your secure Linux environment created in the last tutorial

Create Master password

• Download Yubikey Manager AppImage HERE and select "save file"

• Select files from left side of desktop

• Navigate to "Downloads"

• Right click the file you just downloaded and select "Properties"

• Select "Permissions" and tick the "Allow executing file as program" box

• Insert your Yubikey into your PC

• Now double click "Yubikey-manager" and the program will open

• Once Yubikey manager loads select "OTP" from the "Applications" menu

• Select "Configure" tab on "Long Touch (Slot2)"

• Select "Static Password"

• Tick the "Allow any character" box

• Click "Generate" until you find a password you are happy with, this one looks good

• Once you have your password hit "Finish" to save it to your Yubikey

• Now we can open the text editor and create our finished master password

• Open the text editor by clicking the 9 dots in the bottom left of the screen and searching "text editor"

• You now need to create a prefix to you master password using 8 digits and 2 proper nouns

• For our example we will use japan12345678tokyo type your password into the text editor

• Once you have typed your password use the "Long Touch" feature to input the rest of your master password by holding the contacts on the Yubikey for at least 3 seconds

• You should end up with a password similar to this

• You can now save this for use later by clicking save and name it "Master Password" in the "Documents" folder