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It's common for hardware security tokens like this to limit themselves to self-generated private keys. The intent is the device needs to provide a guarantee th
by tedchs 9y ago
It's common for hardware security tokens like this to limit themselves to self-generated private keys. The intent is the device needs to provide a guarantee that the private key is not otherwise accessible, whereas it would be if the user generated it, perhaps wrote it to disk, provided it to the SE, and perhaps SEs on other devices.
- 0culus 9y agoYubiKeys allow you to load your own private key, which turned out to be a great feature. [0] [0]: https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2017-01/ https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2017-...