Jan 2021 VivoKey Apex update

[tac0s]

I love that Amal has reshaped my “soon” expectations. I saw the day before yesterday that Dan Carlin said the new (waiting for seven months) episode of hardcore history would be out soon and I immediately tuned out… Only to find it was uploaded last night

[fraggersparks]

@yeka

There is a smartcard yubikey applet afaik. Some OTP and PGP for sure.

Unfortunately, Yubikey closed-sourced a lot of their stuff.

But, we will be releasing both of those applets.

[fraggersparks]

@ethan_rose

Is it correct to say that the Apex has some similar functionality to the YubiKey?

If I can get (at least some of) my OTP keys and hardware 2FA key type functionality out of it I’ll be very happy. PGP would be cool too!

Correct on the OTP and GPG front, that’s ready to go, we’re working on the U2F applet.

[ethan_rose]

That’s brilliant!

How does one normally interface with their computer or device in a way which determines which mode/information they want from the key?

Is it all through the Vivokey app?

[fraggersparks]

@ethan_rose

That’s brilliant!

How does one normally interface with their computer or device in a way which determines which mode/information they want from the key?

So, the great thing about Javacard and smartcards in general is they were always designed for multiple applets.

When you want to do something with a smartcard, the reader just asks for the applet it needs to talk to. When it wants the OpenPGP app, it asks for that identifier. When it wants U2F, it asks for a separate one.