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I have a couple v1 Solokey Somus lying about. Good little devices. Unfortunately the main selling point of upgradeable firmware is moot if they no longer suppor
by DistractionRect 3y ago
I have a couple v1 Solokey Somus lying about. Good little devices. Unfortunately the main selling point of upgradeable firmware is moot if they no longer support the old devices and you have to upgrade. At that point it's they're like everyone else. Except they require some setup on some machines, whereas other keys "just work"
I've since replaced them with yubikeys. Yubikeys have a better feature set (at least compared to by v1's) and at this point are fairly mature/stable. V2 is still pitched as alpha quality, and probably will be deprecated with a v3. As much as I want Solokeys to succeed, I just can't recommend them either.
- jaefi 3y agoGiven how the project is going, not even sure if there will be a V3 at some point.
- DistractionRect 3y agoThat's actually what gives me confidence. All the hardware manufacturing problems almost ensure a v3 will be designed.
- jaefi 3y agoI meant more the lack up updates and communication doesn't really paints a bright future for Solokeys.
- coffee33go 3y agoAre you sure? apt-get install solo-python One can update the firmware.
- stavros 3y agoMy key won't get upgraded (it just pretends to install the upgrade, says done, and the key stays on the same version).
- DistractionRect 3y agoThe "hacker" variant can be flashed with whatever, but if you lock it down to signed firmware, you're at the mercy of SoloKeys to provide updates. That's kinda one of the tenets of hardware keys, that they can't be modified/corrupted/dumped by rogue firmware.