This post is meant as a quick how-to for new customers and as a feature request for yubico R&D team.
I mainly bought the yubikey for it's static password function. Unfortunately the passwords generated with Yubikey Personalization Tool are not as secure as I expected - only the first characters seem to be capitalized or numeric, the whole remainder is always lowercase.
So, the only way to get a secure static password seems to be as follows:
1.) get an external password generator as can be found by googling "password generator"
2.) generate a secure password
3.) choose Static Password / Scan Code mode in Yubikey Personalization Tool and manually type the new password into the password field
Feature Request:
1.) Add a paste password from clipboard function to Yubikey Personalization Tool.
2.) Make Yubikey Personalization Tool generate more secure passwords like
2QbfR77NNoEgPuWVBWc4cbg97ngghNAR
QWnk8je2K4WZ7c9Ut4iLcC4dhSKXofFA
4gWYKHYvtYZ2vTvGnx7tuarg44UWMZVK
weccoyGLrYYLXk3tQeJHRk82uykzZKnB
YXHn2awkejNd2d7icFXvf6JC7Vzmshua
TrXuUdMscsmZjw9LNwhBDnbbfCprVfgo
wwwSu8KSTmL8thbRtaT2fbCNYjYkoFzv
LDti6zCCtwpHov8npzxV3KuNfhEviZiY
jYjHjMQU3TbS5JWqGxWHEENFop7Nhs7u
7jX8vVMEyXADHnhC2jPwmpieaXk5x538
Lhnba8SJQpv59CdYRDaJnGTChCeYWKE7
gq3nCYRMJaBRjf6VHBv3DNcqBwjNc55Q
fyKXBpUWJjiamN9rjjvGXUGGgnXdfFMq
Cheers,
AndiStatistics: Posted by dumdidum — Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:33 pm
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