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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have used them (coincidentally, with Okta), and they are pretty neat! I actually choose to use them instead of a smartphone app where I can, because it's much faster to use. I'd recommend them to companies as a good measure.

They are still effectively 2FA where it's just a lot harder to work out the proprietary system with which the password is encoded. So it is a sort of a 'security by obscurity', but the likelihood of someone going through all the work to disassemble your key and work it out with you noticing / before the key gets invalidated is pretty low, so unless you're protecting something super-duper high value (and assuming the manufacturer hasn't screwed up too badly), they'll do a good job.