YubiKeys is a password manager in a dongle, thus the exact opposite of passwordless. Your dogs and your goats are passwordless, they reliably serve you but have a built in immune system with redundancies protecting them from abuses of their passwordlessness.
Op zo 15 dec 2024 om 15:35 schreef Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 6:47 AM 🦓 <czybo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > my mother is currently struggling to memorize all of my dead > stepfather's identities and passwords and that makes me wonder how would > you like an internet of hosts who store everything undeletably and > barrierlessly readably with no secrets whatsoever to humanity nor any other > natural or artificial or divine intelligence? i know this sounds like a > question for debian-devel or debian-policy but i m dumping it onto > debian-user as as of now i m not subscribed to any other. > > For some of the larger sites you can use a YubiKey. YubiKeys use the > FIDO/FIDO2 protocols. I believe WebAuthn also supports YubiKeys. > > But I found a lot of sites do not support FIDO/FIDO2 protocols. For > example, most banks and my mother's credit union do not support them. > In this case, I send a letter to the company's legal department and > put them on notice. (I also point out the problems with their current > authentication system). > > If you start switching to YubiKeys, then be sure to use two of them. > The second is a backup YubiKey, and it also gets enrolled when you > convert the account. The backup YubiKey is used in case the first > YubiKey is lost. > > Jeff > -- +491601449...@linktr.ee/czyborra🦓
