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> A USB stick loaded with FIDO software could also work, allowing users to authenticate to computers they don't own. Much easier. Malware will just switch to s
by nwh 13y ago
> A USB stick loaded with FIDO software could also work, allowing users to authenticate to computers they don't own.
Much easier. Malware will just switch to stealing those instead.
- icebraining 13y agoIf it's a custom made stick, and not just some dumb mass-storage, it could do the crypto authentication in the stick itself, without ever copying the private key to the main device. It's basically how smartcards work.