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by dboreham 921 days ago
The only reason things like Ledger exist is because regular smart cards (e.g. Yubikey) don't yet support the signature schemes used on blockchains.
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Regular smart cards also don't have screens, so it would mean totally blind signing. That's the problem which hardware wallets are solving, but sometimes the screen is just too small to show all the details of complex transactions.
Yubikeys are fine for basic sign-in/sign-out functionality, but even on a basic web app, your auth tokens are something else independent of your Yubikey signature.