Review on Yubico YubiKey 5C Nano - USB-C Two Factor Authentication Security Key - Enhanced Online Account Protection Beyond Passwords - FIDO Certified USB Password Key - Ultra Compact Size by Brandon Vox

Don't buy these keys unless you work where they're needed most. The infrastructure that allows the average consumer to use them conveniently doesn't exist yet - and, frankly, maybe never will. For several years I've been trying to make security keys my primary login method. But the truth is that they can only serve as a supplement to established security mechanisms. You cannot use them to log into a Windows computer with a regular Windows account connected to the internet. You can use them to log on to Windows locally, but this is a problem on many levels and requires a corrupted account. You can use them to log into Gmail, but with the Google Authenticator app on your mobile phone. The security chip is just as secure and much simpler. You cannot use them to log in to your password manager. Actually you can, but that's like saying you can open your car with your phone because you keep the key in an internet-connected safe that you open with your phone and then use the key to open to start the car. To do this with most password managers, you'll need to use your YubiKey with Yubi's own authentication app. Instead of using an authenticator app with your phone's built-in security, log in to the yubi authenticator app with a yubikey and then use the yubikey authenticator. to enter the password for the second part of your 2-Step Verification. This is gossip. And NO security key proponents seem to accept that it's not possible to use a Yubi key (or any other) to log into your accounts naturally. not yet available for most consumer level inputs. Not Microsoft. Not Office 365. Not Mac. Meanwhile, Yubi claims you can use the key with dozens of account types, but it doesn't work with them natively. They mean that when you sign up for two-factor authentication, can use the Yubi Authenticator app on your phone as a second factor and your Yubikey provides login authentication for that app. By now phone-based security is becoming more common, and the ecosystem, using your phone's security chip is being created everywhere, leading me to believe these chips are Betamax security systems - capable, but not capable, used in most places to become, and therefore likely to become extinct at some point. Yubi claims you can use the key with dozens of account types, but it doesn't work with them natively. They mean that when you sign up for two-factor authentication, can use the Yubi Authenticator app on your phone as a second factor and your Yubikey provides login authentication for that app. Phone-based security is now becoming more commonplace, and the ecosystem that uses your phone's security chip is being created everywhere, which makes me think: that these chips are Betamax security systems that can be used in most places, but are not suitable and are therefore likely to become extinct at some point. Yubi claims you can use the key with dozens of account types, but it doesn't work with them natively. They mean that when you sign up for two-factor authentication, can use the Yubi Authenticator app on your phone as a second factor and your Yubikey provides login authentication for that app. Meanwhile, phone-based security is becoming more commonplace, and the ecosystem that uses your phone's security chip is being created everywhere, leading me to believe these chips are the beta max of security systems - capable but not viable in most places and