Recently I completed a class discussion board on passwordless authentication. I wrote my post about hardware keys, I mentioned Passwords and hardware keys should be paired together to greatly improve security. The key can add something you have to the equation as well as something you are If you go with a model with a fingerprint reader.

Going off of the amount of research I’ve done It’s a good idea to have two keys, one to keep on you to access your accounts and another one safely secured in case the other one is lost, stolen or damaged. I Googled “How durable is a Yubikey” The top search result was a Readit thread and a few replies down somebody linked to a tweet that made me laugh out loud and is the reason why am writing this.

It doesn’t answer the questions I have about the durability of the connector but hey at least I know it’s not built like wet tissue paper hahaha.