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Inside Yubikey Neo

10 pointsby tasqaover 9 years ago

2 comments

2bluescover 9 years ago
I love my Yubikey Neo and it&#x27;s good to see one torn down and tested.<p>It&#x27;s not surprising that the NEO board has 2 chips in standard QFN packages where as the earlier Yubikey exploited in [1] was a chip-on-board &quot;package&quot;. I bet the earlier version are significantly cheaper. The &quot;practically indestructible&quot; comments are (admittedly) common sense.<p>Sounds like there aren&#x27;t any exploits here (yet). Should some materialize as they have in the past [1][2], Yubico has always replaced my devices.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;_c1cx8F4-SM?t=37m9s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;_c1cx8F4-SM?t=37m9s</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.yubico.com&#x2F;ykneo-openpgp&#x2F;SecurityAdvisory%202015-04-14.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.yubico.com&#x2F;ykneo-openpgp&#x2F;SecurityAdvisory...</a>
slikenover 9 years ago
I got the yubikey on the github special. Does seem pretty chinsey. What&#x27;s worse is that it can easily be inserted into a USB port backwards.