[Gllug] Does the YubiKey USB security token actually work in Linux?

j.roberts j.roberts at stabilys.com
Fri Jun 24 11:15:45 UTC 2011


On 23/06/2011 23:54, Progga wrote:
...

> Things are looking good for YubiKey (apart from the price of 36 GBP) and
> the manufacturer Yubico is claiming [4] that "The YubiKeys are also used
> by Fedora’s core team members for securing access to high security
> hosts.".  Now my question is, does any one have any experience with
> these on a Linux machine?

...

> [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_token
> [1] https://www.swekey.com/
> [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/f3v0k/has_anyone_used_swekey_it_seems_great_but_i_can/
> [3] http://www.yubico.com/yubikey
> [4] http://www.yubico.com/references
> [5] http://www.hacker10.com/computer-security/three-hardware-authentication-systems-swekey-yubikey-and-umikey/

Thanks for that post, I'm most interested in this system (which I had 
not encountered for some reason - laziness? World-weariness? Whatever.)

Looks useful.

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