YubiKey

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Wed Nov 29 21:23:30 PST 2017



> On Nov 30, 2017, at 12:03 AM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> https://github.com/hillbrad/U2FReviews
> 
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:25 PM, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
>> Does anyone have any experience with a YubiKey? Specifically using it
>> with the PAM module you can download from their site and tying it to
>> logins for Linux/*BSD/MacOS ?
>> 
>> I've got lots of experience (from jobs) using RSA SecurID tokens, tying
>> them to sshd/login/sudo/etc with pam and the securid PAM module, and it
>> works really well.. I understand YubiKey is not going to print out a
>> stream of changing digits for me, but nor will it require an RSA SecurID
>> server and all that goes along with it.. And also I've read you can
>> store your GPG private keys on the yubikey, which sounds cool.
>> 
>> Is it worth the buy? Anyone using it for any of the above (or other)
>> purposes? I suppose I should do some more reading, just curious if
>> anyone loved it or hated it or whatever..
>> 
>> thanks!
>> 
>> --
>> GPG fingerprint: 17FD 615A D20D AFE8 B3E4  C9D2 E324 20BE D47A 78C7

Thanks!  I’m giving it a read. Doesn’t seem to be too focused on my particular
use case, but of course U2F in the browser is also very cool.

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