Re:Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web V...
by aborsy on Monday December 05, 2022 @10:43PM
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Hardware keys are better. Phone’s operating system is a huge code base. Also, iPhone’s operating system is a closed source proprietary black box.
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Re:Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web V...
by piskerpan on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:09AM
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How do you link your hardware key to the website? You still have to plug it into a proprietary black box.
If you think your computer security is weak, it will continue to be the weak link even with with a hardware key.
Re:Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web V...
by aborsy on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:08AM
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If the computer is compromised or backdoored, it will have access to private keys for websites that I access on that computer, one per each touch, not the database of all private keys.
For example, I may not connect my Yubikey to some computers at all.
Hardware keys are made not to give out secret keys without physical touch.
Firmware in Yubikey is not updated, unlike over the air phone update.