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What are good YubiKey alternatives with NFC and biometrics? (www.yubico.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/privacy

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Hey everyone,

I am currently using an old(er) HYPERSECU FIDO key, USB-A with a button, and I am looking to

secure my phone as well (NFC) and, if possible
add biometric authentication to the mix.

Are there good alternatives or better: upgrades to the YubiKey which do support NFC as well as biometrics and come with a USB-C?

Thanks for your time 👋

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[–] vrek 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I know yubikey is the biggest in the market and it's always good to have alternates but is there a reason you don't want them?

I thought their security was pretty good and haven't heard of any breaches.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe their prices

[–] vrek 2 points 11 months ago

I think I paid 35 for USB-c and nfc... You think that is severely overpriced?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

May be similar issue as mine. Yubico has pretty awful on-device password support, but for MFA it works. With yubico you're better off thinking of per-site passphrases that you keep in memory in addition to their one-click password entry, so it gets memory heavy.

[–] vrek 2 points 11 months ago

My main thing is my paaword manager is protected by 2fa...maybe not 100%secure granted, but I am not a state level actor and have no major money/property to steal. That's probably why I have no similar issues.