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by guiomie 2602 days ago
I like the added security of yubikeys, I use it for Google account and Facebook. Sadly it won't easily work everywhere, I seem to always have issues with my smartphone (missing adapter or rfid not working well), but my biggest pain is it doesn't work on PS4, my youtube account always gets unlinked randomly, than I need to go my computer, disable 2FA, sign-in on the ps4, and reenable 2FA.

I like the idea of SSH'ing with it, ill give that a shot.
2 comments
TheQwerty 2602 days ago
It pokes a hole in your security but you could consider creating App Passwords for devices like the PS4 which do not support 2FA.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833

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toomuchtodo 2602 days ago
Yubikey 5 supports NFC for mobile, might work for your use case (smartphone challenges).
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tomatocracy 2602 days ago
Indeed, though for SSH only on Android, not iOS, and only with GPG keys not PIV. ConnectBot and OpenKeychain are the apps you need to do this.

Also on Android (but again not on iOS), Chrome (but sadly not Firefox as far as I know yet) can use the google authenticator app (again sadly I think no alternatives to this yet) to speak FIDO with an NFC yubikey.

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