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For purposes of Fido/U2F, almost every service that lets you use U2F will also let you set up TOTP, and with TOTP you can save/print the QR codes. And TOTP is good enough to let you enrol a new U2F key.

So you don't need the expense of buying multiple yubikeys if most of them will end up in safety deposit boxes. Just put a printout of a TOTP QR code in the safety deposit box.

(This doesn't apply if you want to use the non-U2F features of the yubikey, like PGP, but who needs that?)



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