You donot understand your own mistrust.  You are trying to make it
unnecessarily difficult to use your tool.  How would you like a spoon that
phishing-resistently refuses to spoonfeed you unless you have sufficiently
identified yourself as an authority-authorized credit card owner?

Op ma 16 dec 2024 om 08:49 schreef Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:42 AM 🦓 <czybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> You don't understand YubiKeys, their capabilities, and Universal
> Second Factor. The security requirements of U2F are a token that has:
>
>     1. high entropy
>     2. replay resistant
>     3. phishing resistant
>
> Passwords may satisfy (1), but they completely fail at (2) and (3).
>
> And your original problem statement stated memorization was the
> problem you were trying to solve. Even if a YubiKey serves up a fixed
> password (which it does not), then it solves your memorization
> problem.
>
> I have no idea what dogs and goats have to do with things.
>
> Jeff
>
> > 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.
>


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