Yubico’s 12-year quest to secure online accounts

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In 2007, Stina Ehrensvard founded a small startup with a vision: what if you could have a single key to secure all your online accounts against cybercriminals?
Her company Yubico has manufactured one of the most successful line of hardware authentication keys and has also helped develop open standards for the development of secure authentication technologies.
In an interview with TechTalks, Ehrensvard discussed authentication, the evolution of Yubico’s security keys and the future of the internet.
A few decades ago, in the early years of the internet, every user had very few accounts, each of which could be secured with a simple password.
More and more companies have endorsed two-factor authentication (2FA), the practice of requiring users to present more than just passwords to gain access to their accounts.
The idea behind YubiKey, Yubico’s flagship USB security key, was to provide a convenient and reliable way to secure multiple accounts with a single key.
“When I started Yubico, I had the vision for having one key for any number of services, and I want this key to be easy to use for everyone,” Ehrensvard says.
Every YubiKey has a public key, which can be registered with a user account.
When users register their YubiKey with their account (say Gmail or Facebook), the device’s public key is registered with their account.
Afterwards, when they want to log in to their accounts with a new device, the users plug in their YubiKey to their computer, which uses the private key to verify their identity with the corresponding public key.
“The device has gone through an evolution, but the user interface and experience has remained the same,” Ehrensvard says.
This little detail, called “touch to sign,” has been one of the key innovations behind YubiKey, and has been consistent across all generations of Yubico’s products.
Aside from its line of security keys, Yubico has also played an important role in the evolution of authentication

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