Re:Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
by lxgr on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:29PM
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Yubikey was even planning working on a FIDO extension that would allow that for a while, but I don't think it went anywhere.
It's a real shame, as I'd also love "Yubikey twins" of which I can put one in a safe deposit box and have the other one always with me, without needing to periodically synchronize them to all services I'm using them on.
The problems are the "corner" cases: enrolling new keys, removing old keys, handling unintentional destruction of the key. The last one, in particular, is really problematic.
Some of the security mechanisms that a YubiKey provides are an extreme inconvenience. For example, I want to be able to clone my key via some mechanism in case it gets destroyed. I don't want to have to enroll 3 separate keys in every service on the planet just in case I put one in the wash accidentally. That's not possible with a YubiKey--for good reason--but it's a significant annoyance.
We consider "duplicating a physical key" such a common need that we have automated machines to do it at 7 Eleven. The fact that we don't have the same consideration of digital ones is problematic.