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0 pointscodetrotter2y ago0 comments

I have four Yubikeys.

One of them is a black one that work gave me for use with the work computer. I’ve had this Yubikey for over 1 year.

Three of them are blue ones I bought from Amazon, that I also added to my SSO profile at work. I’ve had these Yubikeys for several months.

One of them I keep in my wallet most of the time. One of them I keep on my desk and bring in my backpack when I go somewhere. One I keep in a box. One is somewhere in the room.

I rotate between these, and I switch which one I keep in the wallet, which one I keep in a box etc.

It’s worked well for me so far. None of them have failed yet, and when one does fail or get lost I will remain confident that the other ones I have will continue to work long enough that I can order even more Yubikeys to replace which ever ones went bad.

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tuatoru2y ago

Yeah, if you want to be a charity donating to Yubico, godspeed. Not my cup of tea.

sneak2y ago

Yubikeys are $50. Ten are $500. Mine protect keys that can decrypt data worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

My $500 worth of Yubikeys has lasted me 5 years and counting, so we're at <$10/month TCO. That's to have 10 of them.

gymbeaux2y ago

Data worth hundreds of millions of dollars? What’s an example of data that an entity would realistically pay hundreds of millions of dollars for? The only thing that comes to mind would be the database backups of user data of a large company’s software, which is literally irreplaceable if lost (but then infinity is larger than one hundred million…)

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