Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support?

Re:Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support? by guenthert on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:06PM (#31186414)

Solution in search of a problem or just plain advertising? I rather see banks use some sensible authentication standard (perhaps, not necessarily, 2FA; likely, but preferably not using passwords), then a random for-profit company's product. Yubikeys are first and foremost baffling expensive.

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Re:Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support? by sd37489sdf on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @07:34PM (#31187127)

Please follow the guidelines for commenting and assume good faith: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In particular, 2FA is not a standard but rather a collection of techniques, some of them standards. Yubikeys implement a good number of them. When someone asks a question like this one, I take it to mean "Bank with WebAuthn support", which is in fact a standard, and I'd also like to know if one exists that also lets you selectively disable other weaker factors.

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Re:Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support? by guenthert on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:00PM (#31188306)

I'm aware that 2FA is not a standard. I meant to write "a standard perhaps, not necessarily using 2FA", but I fumbled the editing. My bad.

And no, here I cannot assume good faith, sorry.

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Re:Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support? by RockRobotRock on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:14PM (#31186498)

You think YubiKey needs to advertise on a message board for paranoid tech nerds?

nobody just found out about yubikey from this thread...

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Re:Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support? by rolandog on Thursday April 28, 2022 @02:12AM (#31189243)

> a message board for paranoid tech nerds?

Ah, this explains why I feel at home in this community.

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Re:Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support? by aaaaaaaaata on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:51AM (#31193167)

Don't worry, you're not paranoid, you're just not missing relevant knowledge, or a mouthbreather.

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Re:Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support? by aaaaaaaaata on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:55PM (#31198078)

PS consider dropping Keybase

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Re:Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support? by rolandog on Saturday May 07, 2022 @07:43AM (#31293771)

Thanks for the advice! Had forgotten to remove it from here.

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Re:Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support? by CodeWriter23 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @07:30PM (#31187100)

$8-$50 is "baffling expensive"? I think if it protects a few grand in the bank, well worth it. If you don't have a few grand in the bank, I think maybe yeah any non-free 2FA solution becomes "expensive".

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