Abstract: Embodiments are direct to an improved approach for securing a passphrase, which only allows the user to provide the passphrase as a single phrase outside the trusted user device environment. The embodiments are direct to systems and methods that register a device of a user with a recovery application, including: (i) providing a passphrase for a user account and (ii) selecting friended devices configured in a trusted network of the user device. The systems and methods generate phrases or keys from the provided passphrase and divide the generated phrases or keys into sections. For each divided section, the systems and methods distribute the section to a friended device in the trusted network, where the section is stored. During an account transaction, the systems and methods retrieve the stored sections from the friended devices, and combine the retrieved sections into the user passphrase for accessing the user account.