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> YubiKeys have no password lock of their own

I don't know if the author of the blog post means something else but if you're using 2FA tokens (i.e. Yubikey Authenticator) you can put password protection for additional security.

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drdaeman|5 years ago

Yubikeys have PIN for FIDO2 passwordless auth, see `ykman fido set-pin` command (IIRC, there a GUI for this as well but I don't have a single passwordless login - to best of my awareness, no single website on the web that I use seem to support this).

This is different from typical U2F operations, though, where website asks for a password ("know") and a hardware token ("have"). For those, password is the secret part already.

If someone phished someone's password AND stole one's Yubikey - well, this is a very peculiar situation, where, indeed, the scenario fails. If someone steals a laptop with Yubikey plugged in - they (hopefully) don't have passwords. Unless someone had set it up to login and open their password manager with just a touch of the said Yubikey, without anything extra. Which is, again, quite a peculiar situation.

mynameisvlad|5 years ago

In some scenarios, Windows 10 will also require a PIN to use a key:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/user...