US e-government department uses YubiKey for secure file storage
The information security department of the City of Boca Raton in Florida has successfully integrated the YubiKey with open source encryption TrueCrypt.
"We needed a method of giving our Department Heads a secure location to store personnel related files, which would still be backed up with the rest of the network files, but would be unreadable. We settled on TrueCrypt for the encrypted file storage, since the encrypted file mounts as a disk drive, a concept they are familiar with. Rather than burden the department heads with using a 20-character password as TrueCrypt suggests, we decided to use the YubiKey with a static password to validate the access to the volume. The concept of a physical key is far more comfortable for our managers to use!" says Walt Scrivens, Information Security Officer, City of Boca Raton, FL, USA
The YubiKey Static Password Mode requires no back-end server integration and therefore works with most legacy username-password solutions. It is more of a security compromise given that the code is static, but there are a number of applications where it provides a "good-enough and pragmatic" solution.
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