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Re: Implantable Yubikey. Carry it everywhere under your skin

2016-03-12T20:28:47+01:00

Funny, I just saw this: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/biohac ... their-skin

I guess the current size factor for the NEO is quite ok compared to the monster these guys got implanted

Statistics: Posted by lafien — Sat Mar 12, 2016 8:28 pm

Re: Implantable Yubikey. Carry it everywhere under your skin

2016-02-29T13:47:02+01:00

lafien wrote:

I have started using my Yubikey NEO more frequently, and I am always scared of leaving it behind somewhere.

The solution: an implantable Yubikey, with NFC capabilities (without USB of course). It would be something like this:

https://dangerousthings.com/shop/13-56m ... glass-nfc/

but of course, with Yubikey NEO functionality. Can you make such a thing?

I suspect it's not quite possible with the current (<-subtle pun there) technology: the amount of power that can be captured in the coil depends upon several factors, one of which is the areal cross-section/size of the coil used for the power & communication link. From what I have read, the implantable glass-ampule-sized chip/coil combinations have very tiny coils that aren't able to capture much power. For the needs of a simple chip with very little computational requirements, they do OK. However, for the chip in a Neo, significantly more power is required to do a single (or a series of) cryptographic computation(s). That's one reason the Neo-n doesn't support NFC.

I would hope it's something they've got in their future consideration pile, though.

Brendan

Statistics: Posted by brendanhoar — Mon Feb 29, 2016 1:47 pm

Implantable Yubikey. Carry it everywhere under your skin

2016-02-12T21:26:45+01:00

Statistics: Posted by lafien — Fri Feb 12, 2016 9:26 pm