On 3/23/20 3:53 PM, Sabri Berisha wrote:
Hi,
In my experience, yubikeys are not very secure. I know of someone in
my team who would generate a few hundred tokens during a meeting and
save the output in a text file. Then they'd have a small python script
which was triggered by a hotkey on my macbook to push "keyboard"
input. They did this because the org they were working for would make
you use yubikey auth for pretty much everything, including updating a
simple internal Jira ticket.
One of the things that got lost in the Webauthn stuff is that passwords
per se are not bad. It's passwords being sent over the wire. In
combination with reuse, that is the actual problem. Webauthn supposedly
allows use of passwords to unlock a local credential store, but it is so
heavily focused dongles that it's really hard to figure out for a normal
website that just want to get rid of the burden of remote passwords.
Mike
