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Yubico has been named a “Cool Vendor in NFC 2013″ by Gartner, Inc., one of the world’s leading information technology research and advisory companies. Each year, Gartner identifies new Cool Vendors in key technology areas and publishes a series of research reports highlighting these innovative vendors and their products & services.  Yubico is recognized for the
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The Yubico team will be attending the RSA conference in San Francisco, February 25th – 28th. We will have the YubiKey NEO on demonstration, featuring NFC functions like the OATH TOTP generator for Android and LastPass. Come see us at the OATH Pavillion, Booth #829. To get a free entrance to the exhibits, please use coupon code
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Wired Magazine recently announced that Google is working on a new identity protocol as an alternative to legacy username/password login. The protocol is designed to be integrated across a wide range of authentication hardware, including SIM cards, Yubikey NEOs or a ring you carry on your finger. It is primarily based on open standards, so not
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60 years ago the car industry and our society faced a security problem similar to the challenges facing online identity today. It was a time when the car changed our modern society by delivering on its promise of freedom and speed, but security and safety measures were overlooked; there were no seatbelts in cars. In
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Some people are concerned about the risk of storing cryptographic secrets on Android devices – for example, those used to generate One Time Passcodes (OTP) from Google Authenticator.  The production YubiKey NEO is the perfect companion to Android devices with NFC support.  By bringing your YubiKey NEO close to the back of the Android device
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The YubiKey NEO differs from the standard YubiKey as it can become a composite USB device – presenting both a HID (Keyboard) and CCID (SmartCard) device to the host.  This allows us to support all the great features of the standard YubiKey and add new support for SmartCard functions.  Our last NEO post described the
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In this post we will take you through the steps to enable the YubiKey NEO App: OpenPGP on a production YubiKey NEO. We ship the YubiKey NEO with the YubiKey functionality enabled – but the NEO Apps disabled. Currently we are shipping the YubiKey NEO with an OpenPGP app. To enable this you will need
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We know you have been waiting a long time for the production launch of our YubiKey NEO, and we are very happy to announce our plan to start shipping the production versions of the YubiKey NEO by December 10th. We are already accepting orders for the YubiKey NEO, so place your order today to get
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When Yubico first introduced the YubiKey RFiD in 2009, it provided users with an unmatched integration of physical and network security. Many facilities with existing RFiD based security systems have integrated the RFiD YubiKey into their systems, allowing users to use one device to access their office space as well as network account. The RFiD
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