Consolidated Guide to Using Yubikeys with Linux
Passwords are terrible, but Yubikeys are awesome, especially for reducing the number of passwords you need to remember and the risk of those passwords being stolen. After a fair amount of experimentation, I’ve landed on the following setup to make the most use of my Yubikeys: LUKS full disk encryption Local Linux login and sudo SSH keys for remote login Remote sudo over SSH GPG private key storage AWS CLI authentication Encrypted email with Thunderbird Using Yubikey-backed keys with Git/Github You’ll also naturally get browser-based U2F support, without having to do any extra work.
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Passwords are terrible, but Yubikeys are awesome, especially for reducing the number of passwords you need to remember and the risk of those passwords being stolen. After a fair amount of experimentation, I’ve landed on the following setup to make the most use of my Yubikeys: LUKS full disk encryption Local Linux login and sudo SSH keys for remote login Remote sudo over SSH GPG private key storage AWS CLI authentication Encrypted email with Thunderbird Using Yubikey-backed keys with Git/Github You’ll also naturally get browser-based U2F support, without having to do any extra work.
read more...
Tags: yubikey linux security u2f gpg ssh