On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Arran Cudbard-Bell < a.cudbardb@freeradius.org> wrote:
(YubiKeys are definitely more secure and more universal than smartphone apps, but there is a cost attached to purchasing and (re-)programming them).
What cost do you see in (re-)programming them out of interest?
There is a yubikey-personalization CLI utility. Integrate that with some large USB hubs, D-BUS and some undergraduates and I imagine the programming process would be pretty painless?
Corporate environment rather than educational, so at best we have co-op placements instead of undergraduates. :P That said, it's not so much the initial programming of them that scares me as the inevitable replacement of lost keys (which, in fairness, is just the initial programming of a spare) and occasionally having to reprogram one that gets out of sync in weird ways (I actually had a YubiKey's HOTP counter somehow get behind the server's, which should be impossible, but it happened and prevented all future authentications until I reset the server's counter and resynced them). Put users at enough different sites and things involving physically touching the keys to fix issues get more challenging.