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My Work Day Reflects YubiKey’s Flexibility I work as a developer at Yubico. Like a lot of developers these days I’m empowered to not only develop software, but to publish it and configure the servers it runs on. This means that I have access to many systems, to which I authenticate using different keys, requiring the flexibility of a YubiKey. The […] Read more authentication FIDO U2F security key U2F Works with YubiKey -
The Big Debate, 2048 vs. 4096, Yubico’s Position In Part 2, we got a better understanding of what an algorithm like RSA does and what the length of a key entails. Now, in Part 3, we can talk about the elephant in the room. Are 2048-bit keys useless? And are your documents completely insecure if you are using them? What are the pros […] Read more about Yubico -
Comparing Asymmetric Encryption Algorithms In Part 1 of our crypto blog, I briefly introduced the concept of asymmetric encryption algorithms and the general rule that the longer the key the better. Let’s take a deeper look at that logic here in Part 2. There are many asymmetric encryption algorithms, but lets focus on RSA, which is one of the […] Read more secure encryption -
Does Key Size Really Matter in Cryptography? One of the most interesting and useful aspects of the YubiKey NEO and NEO-n is that they can act as a smart card and come pre-loaded with a bunch of interesting applications, such as an implementation of OpenPGP Card. Many end-users like this functionality, but some question the key lengths. It’s an expected cryptographic question […] Read more cryptography OpenPGP YubiKey NEO -
A Crash Course in Cryptography To better understand asymmetric cryptography, you need knowledge of some basic concepts. For those that are not familiar with public-key cryptography, I will provide here a brief, stripped-down introduction to the topic. In asymmetric or public-key encryption there are two main players: the encryption algorithm itself (RSA, ECC, ElGamal, …) and a cryptographic key pair (there […] Read more cryptography developers FIDO U2F security key -
Yubico Meets President Obama Last Friday I biked to Stanford to discuss online identity protection with the President of the United States. President Obama is a man passionate about the Internet and dedicated to helping secure it. After our short one-on-one conversation about Yubico solutions, he took the stage at the Stanford Memorial Auditorium. In front of him he had […] Read more about Yubico government -
We Love Third-Party Validation! It’s always rewarding when you see third-party validation of your company’s product, and that is why today started off so well. In separate articles published today, Yubico’s YubiKey was highlighted for its tight security and ease of use by authors Don Sambandaraksa at TelecomAsia.net, which is aimed at the telecom market, and Greg Harvey, co-founder […] Read more OpenPGP YubiKey -
The Key and the Princess After Silicon Valley, Sweden is considered one of the world’s more interesting tech innovation hubs, giving birth to global brands such as Skype, MySQL, Spotify, King – and the rising Yubico! The growing and fruitful cross-pollenization between Silicon Valley and Sweden is the reason Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and her husband, Prince Daniel, this […] Read more about Yubico -
YubiKey’s Hollywood Cameo Trips up Bad Guys The YubiKey made it into Hollywood’s spotlight last weekend, taking on a plot-turning cameo appearance in the movie Blackhat. (Cue the suspenseful music). When it was all said and done, the YubiKey showed some of the power of two-factor authentication – not in terms of fingering (pun intended) the suspect, but narrowing the field of potential […] Read more about Yubico -
FIDO U2F Ecosystem Coming Alive Update: New entries added to Enterprise Software list; new section, Governments, added; April 13, 2016 FIDO U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) is, as the name implies, a universal protocol that supports a wide range of modalities and use cases. Many people forget this fact given the current popularity of the USB form factor. But evidence is mounting including biometric, software, […] Read more FIDO Alliance U2F Works with YubiKey