In Short

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Why

Software solutions are insecure and current hardware tokens are too slow, complicated, specialized and boring.

What

The YubiKey
- An innovative authentication token providing strong security to unmatched simplicity and low cost.

Yubico Identity Platform
- Web API components for easy plug-in to Yubico hosted server
- Low level SDK for own integration
- Basic OpenID server enabling a single YubiKey to be used for any number of websites supporting OpenID
- Software for YubiKey configuration in less than a second.

Where

- Perfect for high security online applications; e-government, financial transactions, charged Internet content, etc.
- For any web-based application where fast and frequent online authentication is required.
- For end-customers using an entire spectra of computers, platforms and browsers (Pc, Mac, Linux, Firefox, Opera, all Windows, etc).

How

By simulating a USB keyboard for generating one time pass codes.
- A click on the YubiKey button together with a user-ID generates and sends a time-variant code and a secure one-time pass code to the authenticating server.
- Authentication is performed in a matter of seconds from any computer with a USB-port. No client software install is needed.

Who

- We are a growing team of experienced entrepreneurs, Internet security experts and business developers, based in Stockholm and Sunnyvale, California.
- Founded in 2007 as a spin-off from Swedish RFID-innovator Cypak.
- The company is owned by team members.