API keys

An API key lets a third-party tool use your Mnemonica account. The tool uses the key in place of you. You create the key, and you can remove it in a strong session.

What an API key isCopy Anchor Link

• Belongs to you. A key belongs to your account, not to one Project.
• Counts as strong. A tool with your key can open Strong Projects that you can open.
• Has no unlock. Nobody enters a fingerprint, a face or a PIN when the tool uses the key. Anybody who has the key can use it.
• Does not expire. A key works until you remove it.

Create an API keyCopy Anchor Link

You need a strong session to create a key.

Mnemonica keeps only a hashed form of the key. If you lose the key, remove it and create a new one.

Check and remove a keyCopy Anchor Link

The API keys and devices tab of Preferences / Security lists your keys. For each key, it shows the name, the Prefix (the first characters of the key) and the Kind. It also shows when the key was created and last used. The list includes the keys of your Mnemonica app (kind App) and of your Mnemonica Gate (kind Gate).

To remove a key, click the options button (⋮) on its row. Choose Revoke. To change the name of a key, choose Rename in the same menu. Remove a key that you do not use.

To remove all your keys at once, click the options button (⋮) in the header of the list. Choose Revoke all API keys.

You need a strong session to remove a key or change its name.

After a long time without use, Mnemonica reminds you about the key or suspends it.

API keys and a resetCopy Anchor Link

A reset deletes all your API keys, together with your passkeys and the keys of the Mnemonica app. The tools that used them stop working at once.

During the 24 hours of the reset, you cannot create a key. When the 24 hours end, add a strong method. Then create new keys and put them in your tools.