News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open source and uses Rust. Parent comment

Re:FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open ... by georgyo on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:54PM (#26121258)
What about code signing?

People like to dislike PGP and replace it with a myriad of different solutions. But PGP is everywhere and awesome. It's very wide spread adoption is invaluable. I really don't want to see it replaced with zillions of different bespoke solutions.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open ... by tadfisher on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:07PM (#26121316)
Yep! It's magical having everything signed automatically by plugging in my Yubikey and setting some git config once. I will not go to something that doesn't enable this.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open ... by kevdev on Saturday February 13, 2021 @12:12AM (#26121578)
This. I’m a backer for their Kickstarter but the lack of PGP is unfortunate. Yes, there are problems with it. But as you said, it’s everywhere. It’s not going anywhere anytime soon, so what’s the harm in supporting it for now?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open ... by IgorPartola on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:38PM (#26121434)
Why do people like to hate on PGP? It’s a pretty great project.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open ... by Avamander on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:15AM (#26122917)
Because it has a shitton of issues. The implementations aren't great, cryptographic issues, memory safety issues, stable API/ABI issues. It's still not supported well by software that could use these features.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open ... by GekkePrutser on Saturday February 13, 2021 @09:34AM (#26123789)
Most of the security issues are mitigated by using a hardware token to do the actual encryption anyway.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open ... by Avamander on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:36PM (#26148484)
Those are expensive
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open ... by georgyo on Monday February 15, 2021 @08:25PM (#26149899)
You do realize that the solokey is a hardware token....
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open ... by Avamander on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:59PM (#26186263)
Yes, but a Solokey is half the price of a Yubikey that could do the encryption implied by OP. And to be fair, even Solokey is too expensive for most.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open ... by GekkePrutser on Saturday February 13, 2021 @09:43AM (#26123834)
Yeah I dislike PGP mainly for email by the way. It's too clumsy there.

For file encryption and signing it's great IMO.

[ Parent | on HN ]