Paper key?

Yes, but I was wating for your report (and @emp’s) on this here: Discourse Encrypt plugin - #5 by Miguel, from the same problem experienced by @geoffrey who managed to solve it.

There could be a problem with the plugin, but it would be good to know if you indeed now tried to log in with other device than your notebook.

Please read that post first and let me know how the issue turns out.