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You don't put the password to your FRIDGE in a Yubikey tears I mean I don't even understand the "throw out a device if you forget a password" bit. That's not

You don't put the password to your FRIDGE in a Yubikey tears I mean I don't even understand the "throw out a device if you forget a password" bit. That's not how secure elements (Apple, Yubikey) work. They're just a "write private key once, never read again" device. I would agree though, based on your comment, please don't waste your money on a Yubi or other similar "secure element" platform.

smaudet 4y ago
To clarify, throw out as in, device (armed with a key/lock mechanism) becomes unusable (because said key is corrupted lost, lost amid mountain of other keys). I am using password/key here somewhat interchangeably despite common (mis)understanding of what both words imply i.e. phrase versus some random(ish) bits, because the only distinction between the two is the algorithms used to compare (if you want to get pedantic pub/sub and splitting schemes are a bit more different, nevertheless they share the common theme of "secret used to protect something"). So no your YUBI has no password (that I know of) but it is effectively a password (by scanning it and reproducing it at a molecular level you could in fact reproduce it, it's as much a password with protection by obscurity in this sense as writing down a pass phrase backwards is, albeit one is much more difficult to reproduce than another).