Yandex Key

Yandex Key is a Yandex app (for Android and iOS) that creates one-time passwords for enhanced protection of your accounts.

You can also add your accounts to Yandex Key via the Yandex with Alice and Yandex Start apps. To add a Yandex ID account to Yandex Key via these apps, go to the Security tab, look at the Login method section and make sure that One-time password or Password + one-time password is selected.

A secure permanent password for your account must be complex, and you must always remember it and keep it confidential. Even if you do everything right, it's still vulnerable to things like viruses that record your keystrokes or copy your password to a clipboard. The one-time password stops working right away if you don't use it and gets disabled after you log in to Yandex using it. Trying to steal this type of password is useless.

Using Yandex Key, you can log in to your account either with a one-time password only, or with a combination of a permanent and one-time passwords.

Read more about using Yandex Key on the Help pages:

• Logging in to Yandex with a one-time password
• Logging in with a password + one-time password
• Logging in with an image (a regular password or password + SMS)
• Yandex Key Access
• Add a Yandex account to Yandex Key
• Disable logging in using a one-time password
• Transferring Yandex Key Accounts
• Backup of Yandex Key data
• Restore access to your account with Yandex Key
• Generate verification codes for non-Yandex services