What is your experience with security USB sticks (such as Nitro- or Yubikeys)?

Renacles, 6 months ago

I press my yubikey by mistake and end it just sends random messages on Slack, other than that it just works fine.

SHamblingSHapes, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I’ve only used Yubikey when work mandated them for a while. Didn’t last long until they moved to a push-to-phone-app system instead. It was fine, just irritating to carry around one more physical thing.

And I prefer a smartphone based app in personal life. I use Authy, keeping my backup codes in several safe locations and separate from where I keep password vault backups.

There’s probably some super duper FOSS alt to Authy but I haven’t spent the time to look for it.

stealth_cookies, 6 months ago

Not enough sites support them and for some reason they haven’t made one that supports USB-A, USB-C, and NFC on one key. Seems like the most obvious configuration to cover everything.

Clearwater, 6 months ago

They’re good. My yubikey works flawlessly, though very few sites/apps support them.

Pantherina, 6 months ago

Nitrokeys are way more advanced and FOSS, but they are still somewhat expensive.

catfish, 6 months ago

My experience with my yubikey is that it just works. I know that’s not terribly useful info, but it’s really all I have after several years of occasionally using it. Oh, it’s been on my keychain all that time so isn’t terribly flimsy.