Yubico

Why
Software solutions are insecure and current hardware tokens are too slow, complicated, specialized and boring.

What
The YubiKey
- An innovative authentication token providing strong security to unmatched simplicity and low cost.

Yubico Identity Platform
- Web API components for easy plug-in to Yubico hosted server
- Low level SDK for own integration
- Basic OpenID server enabling a single YubiKey to be used for any number of websites supporting OpenID
- Software for YubiKey configuration in less than a second.

Where
- Perfect for high security online applications; e-government, financial transactions, charged Internet content, etc.
- For any web-based application where fast and frequent online authentication is required.
- For end-customers using an entire spectra of computers, platforms and browsers

How
By simulating a USB keyboard for generating one time pass codes.
- A click on the YubiKey button together with a user-ID generates and sends a time-variant code and a secure one-time pass code to the authenticating server.
- Authentication is performed in a matter of seconds from any computer with a USB-port. No client software install is needed.