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Re:Using Fido Keys by DistractionRect on Saturday December 09, 2023 @12:45AM (#38578993)
I have a couple v1 Solokey Somus lying about. Good little devices. Unfortunately the main selling point of upgradeable firmware is moot if they no longer support the old devices and you have to upgrade. At that point it's they're like everyone else. Except they require some setup on some machines, whereas other keys "just work"

I've since replaced them with yubikeys. Yubikeys have a better feature set (at least compared to by v1's) and at this point are fairly mature/stable. V2 is still pitched as alpha quality, and probably will be deprecated with a v3. As much as I want Solokeys to succeed, I just can't recommend them either.

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Re:Using Fido Keys by jaefi on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:12AM (#38579436)
Given how the project is going, not even sure if there will be a V3 at some point.
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Re:Using Fido Keys by DistractionRect on Saturday December 09, 2023 @09:46AM (#38582316)
That's actually what gives me confidence. All the hardware manufacturing problems almost ensure a v3 will be designed.
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Re:Using Fido Keys by jaefi on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:08PM (#38584791)
I meant more the lack up updates and communication doesn't really paints a bright future for Solokeys.
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Re:Using Fido Keys by coffee33go on Saturday December 09, 2023 @05:01AM (#38580391)
Are you sure?

    apt-get install solo-python
One can update the firmware.
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Re:Using Fido Keys by stavros on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:57AM (#38581170)
My key won't get upgraded (it just pretends to install the upgrade, says done, and the key stays on the same version).
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Re:Using Fido Keys by DistractionRect on Saturday December 09, 2023 @09:41AM (#38582278)
The "hacker" variant can be flashed with whatever, but if you lock it down to signed firmware, you're at the mercy of SoloKeys to provide updates. That's kinda one of the tenets of hardware keys, that they can't be modified/corrupted/dumped by rogue firmware.
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