To actually answer the previous question, they are hardware authenticator tokens with one time passwords.
You can register it with various websites (ebay, paypal, battle.net, etc...) and use it either in conjunction with a regular password or instead of a regular password. You plug the yubikey into your USB port and it installs itself and pretends to be a USB Keyboard. Then, you press the button on it and it types out a 44-character unique one-time-use password. These passwords change automatically at regular intervals and (it is believed) can not be hacked, since they have no readable interface and accessing the hardware on the chip destroys it's functionality so duplication is basically impossible. In theory, someone could steal it from you, take it apart, read it's contents with an electron microscope or similar, duplicate it, and replace the one they stole from you without you knowing... but ... this is unlikely. If you lose it, you can simply go to the yubikey website, report it as lost, and it immediately stops working. It's basically a piece of hardware that generates non-stealable passwords to allow you to login to things way WAY more securely than passwords alone. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Ian Trump <itr...@octopitech.com> wrote: > And Mark Jenkins, but not in the same way. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2013-04-12, at 18:55, "Brittany Postnikoff" <bpostnik...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > You just like halle berry. > On 2013-04-12 6:40 PM, "Ian Trump" <itr...@octopitech.com> wrote: > >> They are the keys to the Internet. Apparently they decrypt any password. >> >> Just like in Swordfish, excellent movie BTW. >> >> Ian >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 2013-04-12, at 18:29, "Aemilianus Kehler" <zew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What do these do? Lol >> >> Cheers!! >> >> On Apr 10, 2013, at 11:32 PM, Justin Lacko <jus...@takaji.ca> wrote: >> >> I'm interested... but I'll wait for our resident crypto expert Colin >> Childs to weigh in on it. >> >> >> On 10 April 2013 21:48, chris kluka <asd...@asdlkf.net> wrote: >> >>> Is anyone interested in getting a YubiKey? >>> >>> https://store.yubico.com/ >>> >>> Bulk orders are cheaper than single units + combined shipping, but I >>> don't know if there is enough interest here to get 20 of them. >>> >>> -- Chris >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >>> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >>> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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