I first heard about Yubico - Yubikey on twit.tv SecurityNow!...every time I look at the thing I think of a ignition key...plug it in and start your work type of thing. It's basically a plug in keyboard with intelligence if hooked into an OpenID provider. Multi-point authentication:
- Something you have (Yubikey)
- Something you know (user ID/password)
Simplicity and perfection...I highly recommend you listen to the SecurityNow podcast discussion this solution with one of the Yubico owners: http://twit.tv/sn143
Yubikey is more than cool. It is an upgrade of your life style and it is here and now!
ReplyDeleteJust to share one of my personal use case - I have Yubikeys for all my family members to use on MashedLife.com to solve our problems of growing # of accounts on Internet. Now my wife can stop asking me for my travel itineraries or Netflix or Expedia passwords since she can access all my accounts shared with her w/o even knowing my passwords. My kid can plug in a Yubikey and open up all his favorite online destinations w/o asking me to remember passwords for him any more! I love Yubikey!