It’s a tiny, near indestructible USB device that fits on your key chain and generates encrypted one time passwords (OTP). If you’re not familiar with Yubikey, it dubs itself as “the key to the cloud”. Geek Tangent: Enter the Yubikeyįlash forward a few years, and Yubikey comes on the scene. When Lastpass launched 4 years ago, I was intrigued but skeptical – Keepass has always allowed me to use a method of multi-factor authentication (what I know – password, and what I have – key file), which was a good method of securing my data, but at the time Lastpass did not offer such an option (it does now using a USB thumbdrive). We’ve updated this post to reflect this.For years now I’ve been using a combination of file synchronization software Dropbox and Keepass to store and share login credentials across multiple devices – my desktop, laptop, Android phone, etc.

It’s only available to paying users, however.

Update: Dashlane mistakenly told us that YubiKey support would be available for both free and paying customers. Then, whenever you need to log into the service in the future, you simply enter your password, plug in your YubiKey when prompted, tap it and you’re good to go. To get started, you simply walk through the setup process until you’re asked to plug in your key and set it up. Using a YubiKey with Dashlane is very similar to using it with any other service. Dashlane, on the other hand, uses the more modern Universal 2 nd Factor (U2F) authentication protocol. It’s worth noting that Dashlane competitor LastPass also supports YubiKeys, but you have to be a paying user to be able to use this feature, and LastPass uses the older OTP protocol. With this, Dashlane joins companies like Google, Dropbox and GitHub in supporting YubiKeys for their consumer-facing applications. If you are a paying Dashlane user, you can keep your passwords a bit safer because the service now supports Yubico’s YubiKeys. Using password managers like Dashlane or LastPass is probably one of the best ways to stay safe on the Internet (because you really don’t want to recycle your passwords), but when your password manager itself is only protected by a basic password, you set yourself up for problems.

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