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Re:OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:43PM (#21916534)
I used to a pile of yubikeys like this (yubikey A, B, C) then I replaced them all with one OnlyKey. Each Yubikey only has 2 slots, each OnlyKey has 24 and it has a secure backup feature.
Re:OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:15PM (#21916287)
FYI, this is fake news OnlyKey has been around since 2016 and has been open source the whole time. Solo was launched in 2018 and claimed to be the first FIDO2 open source security key, this was only true because at the time OnlyKey wasn't FIDO2. OnlyKey was the first open source security key. Also Solo isn't even a viable alternative to YubiKey as it doesn't support challenge-response, static passwords, or OpenPGP. OnlyKey does support all of those things.
Re:OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:08PM (#21916232)
I've got a few SoloKeys too. The USB C one broke in half and looking on Amazon reviews this is an issue for lots of people. Meanwhile my OnlyKey has been running strong 3 years in and has been on my keychain the whole time. Also SoloKey doesn't manage passwords at all, while OnlyKey does.
Re:OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:01PM (#21916172)
It predates FIDO2, the OnlyKey has been around since 2016 and before FIDO2 it supported FIDO U2F.
Re:OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey on Monday December 30, 2019 @10:03AM (#21913730)
So Google Titan keys have a pretty bad track record when it comes to security:

https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/15/google-recalls-some-tita...

It's not possible to have a provable chain of trust on hardware as others have mentioned in the thread, even in the device you mentioned there is no proof that the code the manufacturer intended to run on device is the same code running on the device. Also its closed source so you wouldn't even know what code they intended to run.

In fact with Google Titan you have lots of other issues like that it's actually just a rebranded Feitian key, a China based company with unknown supply chain or possibly even China govt mandated backdoor. More on that here https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2018/09/06/experts-ask-goo...

You can check out the hardware of your key here, there is no tamperproofing at all.

http://hexview.com/~scl/titan/

Re:OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey on Saturday December 28, 2019 @09:29AM (#21899056)
The "security" of Nitrokey is a joke.

As others have mentioned they were actually hacked https://old.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/bis3pf/extract_pgp_...

Nitrokey does not support half of the features OnlyKey does and even the users on their own forum prefer OnlyKey -https://support.nitrokey.com/t/nitrokey-vs-onlykey/638