One of the great things I learned about at CPOSC this past Sunday was the Yubico YubiKey. I had not heard of this little device, granted I had heard of the RSA SecurID. (If you are wondering what a SecurID is, it is a portable device that allows you to add an extra layer of authentication and security to a computer system or interface.) It was interesting that I had just had a conversation with a colleague about the want to find an alternative to the RSA commercial solution. So I was at the conference and the one speaker mentions the Yubikey, and invites interested parties in joining him for a demo of the little devices over lunch. I was so amazed that I just ordered two devices. I will blog more as I learn more about them and what I do with them.
Have you had any experience with any secure token based authentication systems? Please drop a comment and let us know.
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hi alex! back to blogging now…hope you can visit my site, too…
i am already 4 months pregnant.
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Ive never heard of Yubico YubiKey, but im definitely gonna look into it. Will be looking forward to your future post on it!
I hope you will love it, welcome to visit the Yubikey dev forum at http://forum.yubico.com to see its exciting progress contributed by the enthusiastic community.
Cheers
Paul
Thanks for dropping a comment guys. I look forward to receiving the keys, and posting all about them!
Hi,
just saw your post about the yubikey.
you might want to go to http://www.grc.com where security guru “steve Gibson” and podcaster “leo laporte” store their “security now”podcasts with shownotes.
they did a complete story on yubikey with some followups, searching will get you there (alternative is twit.tv)
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Thanks for the tip. I am a long time fan of TSS and GRC.
Yubikey is a token for using OpenID? So why are you not using OpenID for comments on this blog?