YubiKey 5’s FIDO2 support will help you ditch passwords entirely

If you're looking to ditch passwords altogether, then Yubico has some good news for you. The company touts its new YubiKey 5 series as the first to support FIDO2, a standard that allows you to lose passwords entirely. It's been recently supported by Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge.

The YuiKey 5 series now supports FIDO2, FIDO U2F, smart card (PIV), Yubico OTP, OpenPGP, OATH-TOTP, OATH-HOTP and Challenge-Response on a single device. There are four different devices that are part of the line: the YubiKey 5 NFC has a USB-A connection and NFC for mobile. The YubiKey 5 Nano features a low profile USB-A design and stays securely inside your port, while the YubiKey 5C and YubiKey 5C Nano feature a USB-C port.

Previously, the only key with FIDO2 onboard was one that didn't support many other standards. If you're planning on fully ditching passwords in favor of a hardware option, you need a key that works with multiple standards and all of your devices. Now YubiKey can offer that, as well as some assurance that these will be future proof.

Source: YubiKey



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