Comment by cyberax
8 days ago
I'm using a Yubikey that is permanently plugged into a USB-C port on my laptop and another one in my dock at home.
> Except that those "self-contained hardware modules" are actually rarely "self-contained" but usually an integral part of a smartphone running a huge bunch of mostly-untrusted code and that the containment keeps getting breached, of course.
And it actually doesn't matter if the secure device is designed correctly. Providing a secure channel over untrusted networks is something that we can do easily.
> And you still don't get to use Passkeys with banks, of course.
I can. I'm using US Bank and it supports my Yubikey-bound WebAuthn credential just fine.
No comments yet
Contribute on Hacker News ↗