Not even providing it as an alternative has to be done with intent. The YubiKey USB authenticator is equipped with multi-protocol support, including FIDO2, FIDO U2F, Yubico OTP, OATH-TOTP, OATH-HOTP, smart card (PIV), OpenPGP, and challenge-response capabilities. The FIDO U2F standard is freely available, open source, tested by millions, and takes 5 minutes to set up for your software. For example the Steam app has no way of auto-typing the one-time-code on my desktop from my phone. Why are they trying to bully me in to using their sub-par system instead of having all my keys in the same place? Even ignoring the advantages to having my keys all in the same place, their offering is just worse than what I'm using already. I have ~8 2FA account already and hope to add as many as at all possible - I would really rather have them all in one place and that is of course not going to be the Steam app. The fact that Steam has made their own proprietary 2FA and not allowed any standard system just shows that they are remarkably short-sighted. It's a shame you didn't have access to the Internet and therefore couldn't do a quick Google check instead of butting in with completely uninformed opinions for no reason. I have no idea what a Yubikey is, however people without phones have suggested a number of alternatives, and all of the suggestions which I have read have in some way involved using their PC for two-factor authorization. yubikey 109.00, Yubico Yubikey V5C 2-Factor Authenticator (USB-C + NFC) Computer Alliance (QLD) updated: 30-03-2023 110. It reduces the chance of fraud sign-in by. Originally posted by VoidWhisperer | :Yubikey is an entirely seperate, physical device. Yubikey is a type of USB device that we use to authenticate when we try to login into any external vendor system.
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