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Does anyone have experience with either #Yubikey, #Nitrokey or any other hardware security token for both #MFA/#2FA as well as #encryption via #PGP/#GPG or #SMIME?

In particular, I am looking at the Nitrokey 3A NFC. As far as I can tell, Yubico only sells #MFA tokens(?), unless the YubiKey 5 FIPS Series can hold encryption keys as well?

Both price and open hardware aspect definitely speak for Nitrokey, but I do not know anyone who owns such a token... Anyone who I can talk to?

shop.nitrokey.comNitrokey 3A NFC

Today, @nitrokey has sent out a newsletter email responding to the Infineon vulnerability, stating that their keys do not use the affected secure element (theirs is from NXP), somewhat disparaging security hardware certifications, and touting the benefits of their open-source and updateable security-key firmware.

I haven't seen a blog post from them yet with this content, so I've reproduced the newsletter as I received it with this gist (will update if I find an official publication):

gist.github.com/roycewilliams/

GistNitrokey infineon response message - September 2024Nitrokey infineon response message - September 2024 - nitrokey-infineon-response-message.md

Anyone got a good video on how to use a #NitroKey?

I find that all the discussion re these sort of devices focus on Yubikeys and assume basic knowledge and context that I do not have

How can I use it with my email? How can I use it to lock my computers? How can I use it to encrypt filesystems? What other uses does it have?

I'm a nerd, but these devices need to be simply demonstrated for newbs like me