Purism Announces The "Librem Key"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Purism Announces The "Librem Key"

Remember back in May when Purism partnered up with May as they wanted to work on a USB-based PGP SmartCard? They have now announced the Librem Key as a result of that work...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Purism-Librem-Key

[liamdawe]

Wrong word dude

Remember back in May when Purism partnered up with May

[tildearrow]

Nitrokey? Are they those guys?

https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/NitroKey

[nh2_]

From the announcement can't tell if it has U2F support.

[Nille_kungen]

Nitrokey? Are they those guys?

https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/NitroKey

It seems to be the same company as the links point to nitrokeys webpage.

https://www.nitrokey.com/

And their nitrokey looks the same.

[uid313]

This is rather expensive.
Also google is releasing a token with U2F support and like Webauthn, I think.

But I already have something I carry always on me, it my smartphone. I would rather use that, seems much easier.

[pal666]

But I already have something I carry always on me, it my smartphone. I would rather use that, seems much easier.

i think subj is meant to be always bound to you by keychain, so you can't lose it

[uid313]

i think subj is meant to be always bound to you by keychain, so you can't lose it

I trying to get rid of my key chain and things such as keys and key chains.
Less is more.
On my key chain I only got 1 key.

[starshipeleven]

But I already have something I carry always on me, it my smartphone. I would rather use that, seems much easier.

Android isn't anywhere near as safe as a dedicated microcontroller-based dedicated device.

This USB device is more like a portable TPM for really secure stuff.

[starshipeleven]

It seems to be the same company as the links point to nitrokeys webpage.

https://www.nitrokey.com/

And their nitrokey looks the same.

Yeah, it seems to be a re-branded NitroKey Pro 2 https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-pro-2-3
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Both hardware and software are open-source and free software. All development tools are available as open source and for free.
Allows to verify the integrity of certain Purism computer.