Charybdis wrote:
Hello,
my big problem with Yubikey is that too few companies support it!!!
my big problem with Yubikey is that too few companies support it!!!
The only person that can change all that is you, my friend. Just a word of advice: you will never change the minds and hearts of companies by posting on this forum. But if you feel it is worth your while, and want to support Yubico, by all means do so!
What could you do? Well, I don't know, but I can tell you what I do, perhaps it will trigger your imagination. At the next NLUUG fall conference I will give a presentation about the Yubikey. There will be hundreds of (Unix) sysadmins sitting there who never might have had heard about the key otherwise. If they feel it is a good solution, they will inform their management, and perhaps that might just trigger more companies to use the key. I also carry around my Yubikeys and regularly demonstrate them to people. I have written some software for the G1 to emulate a Yubikey and Yubico has worked with me and allowed me to use the authentication server with it - even though strictly spoken that might harm their sales. I have some ideas about the authorization server and have been mailing with Yubico about them, to see if we can get some of my ideas implemented, which in turn may result in a more robust, Open Standards Open Source extended authentication service, which also supports extended attribute exchange. In general, I try to work towards a Yubico independent solution, in effect the solution should still work might Yubico go out of business - but probably they won't, just BECAUSE we work on a system that reduces dependency on Yubico.
But even if 'all' you do is be enthousiastic about the keys and demonstrate them to others, that already helps a lot.
So, my friend, ask not what Yubico can do for you, but what you can do to advocate the yubico key
