YubiKey Guide
A community guide to using YubiKey as a smart card for GnuPG and SSH with hardware-secured cryptographic keys.
What is YubiKey Guide?
YubiKey-Guide is a comprehensive community-driven tutorial for configuring YubiKey hardware security keys for use with GnuPG and SSH. It provides step-by-step instructions to generate and store cryptographic keys on YubiKey, enabling hardware-backed encryption, signing, and authentication. The guide solves the problem of securing sensitive keys by moving them to a non-exportable hardware device, reducing the risk of key theft or compromise.
Security-conscious developers, system administrators, and privacy advocates who want to enhance their cryptographic key security using hardware tokens. It's particularly useful for those managing SSH access, signing Git commits, or using encrypted email.
Developers choose this guide because it offers a meticulously detailed, platform-agnostic approach to YubiKey setup with an emphasis on security best practices. Unlike fragmented online resources, it provides a complete, reproducible workflow from key generation to daily usage, including advanced topics like agent forwarding and multi-key management.
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Community guide to using YubiKey for GnuPG and SSH - protect secrets with hardware crypto.
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