[Cryptography] How Google's Physical Keys Will Protect Your Password

[Udhay Shankar N]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 1:12 PM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

FIDO U2F, of which Yubikey is an implementation, is an interesting
> hack.  It's a USB dongle that pretends to be a keyboard.  That means
> it works on any device into which you can plug a real USB keyboard,
> which is a lot of devices.  It's an open spec, so there are multiple
> manufacturers.  I have both a couple of yubikeys and a couple from
> some French company that was cheaper.
>
> There is an NFC version that's supposed to work with phones, which I
> haven't tried.
>

​There's a version with a USB-C interface. Shouldn't that work with phones
too?

https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/#yubikey-4c​

​Udhay​
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