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Re:Passwordless Logins with Yubikey by JamesSwift on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:23PM (#26171201)
How does that password scheme even work unless the plaintext pin is being stored somewhere?
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Re:Passwordless Logins with Yubikey by LordDragonfang on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:39PM (#26171412)
The system knows how long a yubikey string is and can easily discard that part before hashing.
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