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Might be a good product to app-ify. Maybe a USB dongle that acts like a keyboard and controlled by your phone. Give it some sort of 1Password / Bitwarden integr

Might be a good product to app-ify. Maybe a USB dongle that acts like a keyboard and controlled by your phone. Give it some sort of 1Password / Bitwarden integration. Could make it double as a YubiKey. Surely this exists already?

f3d46600-b66e 3y ago
Yubikey supports this already, but without the phone part.
- mikepurvis 3y ago
  I should do this for ssh password entry. Running ssh-agent is still 90% of the story, but it comes up often enough that I'm on a terminal in a remote machine or inside a screen session or something that it would still be awfully useful to be able to just autotype it.
- reaperman 3y ago
  Does it require installing 3rd party software on the host machine? This might not work great for this kind of "shadow IT" application in all environments, whereas one that acts as a USB keyboard might be more versatile.
  - organsnyder 3y ago
    Only to configure it. It presents as a USB keyboard (among other device types).
    - reaperman 3y ago
      How do you tell it which password to type? I haven't seen yubikeys with physical interfaces to select a particular password.
  - aidenn0 3y ago
    Does it require installing 3rd party software on the host machine? No, it identifies as a keyboard. It also defaults to generating a password that will use the same scancodes on (most?) western keyboard layouts so that computers configured to default to e.g. QWERTZ or AZERTY will still result in the same password.
    - reaperman 3y ago
      How do you tell it which password to type?
      - aidenn0 3y ago
        IIRC there is a maximum of two; one on short-press and one on long-press.
Terr_ 3y ago
Separately from the password aspect, consider how convenient it may be to use your smartphone as a kind of re-reified "clipboard": Use the camera and on-device OCR to copy text, then "paste" it as a virtual keyboard connected over USB. It's very niche, but in those rare situations it'll be a big time-saver compared to human transcription or the rigamarole of setting up some other kind of data channel.
- reaperman 3y ago
  Now I’m curious if BT can be secure enough for all this (responsibly)
RunningDroid 3y ago
The InputStick¹ can provide the hardware side, the software side is open-source² as well. It only has a keepass2android plugin at the moment though. 1: http://inputstick.com http://inputstick.com 2: https://github.com/inputstick https://github.com/inputstick

f3d46600-b66e 3y ago

Yubikey supports this already, but without the phone part.

mikepurvis 3y ago
I should do this for ssh password entry. Running ssh-agent is still 90% of the story, but it comes up often enough that I'm on a terminal in a remote machine or inside a screen session or something that it would still be awfully useful to be able to just autotype it.
reaperman 3y ago
Does it require installing 3rd party software on the host machine? This might not work great for this kind of "shadow IT" application in all environments, whereas one that acts as a USB keyboard might be more versatile.
- organsnyder 3y ago
  Only to configure it. It presents as a USB keyboard (among other device types).
  - reaperman 3y ago
    How do you tell it which password to type? I haven't seen yubikeys with physical interfaces to select a particular password.
- aidenn0 3y ago
  Does it require installing 3rd party software on the host machine? No, it identifies as a keyboard. It also defaults to generating a password that will use the same scancodes on (most?) western keyboard layouts so that computers configured to default to e.g. QWERTZ or AZERTY will still result in the same password.
  - reaperman 3y ago
    How do you tell it which password to type?
    - aidenn0 3y ago
      IIRC there is a maximum of two; one on short-press and one on long-press.

Terr_ 3y ago

Separately from the password aspect, consider how convenient it may be to use your smartphone as a kind of re-reified "clipboard": Use the camera and on-device OCR to copy text, then "paste" it as a virtual keyboard connected over USB. It's very niche, but in those rare situations it'll be a big time-saver compared to human transcription or the rigamarole of setting up some other kind of data channel.

reaperman 3y ago
Now I’m curious if BT can be secure enough for all this (responsibly)

RunningDroid 3y ago

The InputStick¹ can provide the hardware side, the software side is open-source² as well. It only has a keepass2android plugin at the moment though. 1: http://inputstick.com http://inputstick.com 2: https://github.com/inputstick https://github.com/inputstick