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Community guide to using YubiKey for GnuPG and SSH - protect secrets with hardware crypto.

59 mentions on Hacker News by 38 people: 7 stories, 52 comments · first 2016-02-02 · latest 2026-10-30

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  1. I'm not sure but it would come down to if openpgp supports that. A quick Google shows this: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide I didn't read everything but it seems pretty comprehensive.
    comment by nickjj · 2019-02-21 · in Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
  2. Here’s a decent guide: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide PS I’d love to get some shoved into my hand. Paid $100 for my pair.
    comment by tempotemporary · 2019-02-18 · in Ask HN: Do you use a GPG key with GitHub?
  3. > It seems to me that my YubiKey setup (done following https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide ) is substantially better in almost every respect than the state-provided smartcard. Would you care to explain the differences in detail? As far…
    comment by Boulth · 2018-09-18 · in GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington
  4. …setup with private keys stored on a YubiKey. It seems to me that my YubiKey setup (done following https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide ) is substantially better in almost every respect than the state-provided smartcard. I intend to…
    comment by jwr · 2018-09-18 · in GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington
  5. I'd suggest following the excellent guide at https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide and using one of your GPG subkeys (kept on a hardware device like a YubiKey) for SSH authentication.
    comment by jwr · 2018-08-03 · in The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext
  6. …you have "pretty good privacy" — with convenience. I recommend this guide for setting things up: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide The great thing about YubiKeys is that apart from U2F, you also use them for OpenPGP, and the same…
    comment by jwr · 2018-07-23 · in Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing
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    Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH
    story by vuln · 2018-02-27 · 38 comments
  8. …brief guide for setting up SSH with YubiKey as a smartcard which complements this article nicely - https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide
    comment by noondip · 2016-02-07 · in SSH: Best practices
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    Guide to using YubiKey as a SmartCard for storing GPG keys
    story by diafygi · 2016-02-02 · 0 comments