Forgot password but have Touch ID login

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Hi @bmwrangle,

Thanks for using Codebook, though I’m really sorry to hear about the trouble. Forgetting the Codebook master password is a tough spot to be in, as there are no backdoors and we cannot recover it for you. Despite the password being encrypted in your device’s Secure Enclave, Codebook does not currently offer a feature for displaying or recovering that value, it simply puts it there and then uses it on login when you authenticate with a fingerprint. We are currently considering ways to improve this, but right now that’s the situation. We have some other suggestions that might help, though:

Forgotten Master Passwords

What do I do if I forgot my master password? When you first setup Codebook on your computer or mobile device and set a master password it is used to create a key that we then use to encrypt your local data. We don’t store this key anywhere (e.g. outside your app or on some cloud service) and we cannot retrieve it if you forget the master password. Adding a backdoor to Codebook or keeping a copy of your key would seriously compromise the application’s security, so it’s important to set a master p…