Apple Ios Yubikey

A yubikey for ios will soon free your iphone from passwords yubico has finally gotten the green light from apple to make a hardware authentication token that works on iphones and ipads.

Apple ios yubikey. Yubico celebrates more than a decade of cutting edge contributions to the authentication market with its latest innovation the yubikey 5ci now available for purchase at our yubico store. While yubico acknowledges this progress ubiquitous apple support for strong authentication namely fido protocols remains out of reach at the moment. Yes you could use them to log into your mac with the right ports but yubico s.

The yubikey 5ci allows for direct connection to ios ipados devices with a lightning port. Given that the yubikey neo can generate an otp and send it to the requesting app via nfc we finally have some good news for iphone lovers. Yubikit is an ios library provided by yubico to interact with yubikeys on ios devices.

Yubikey and new apple compatibility traditionally yubikeys haven t been interested in fully supporting ios or macos. The yubico authenticator will work with the yubikey 5ci ios 11 2 and the yubikey 5 series nfc enabled keys ios 13 0. Today marks an exciting milestone not only in the history of yubico but in the history of security keys and mobile devices.

The process works with a yubikey neo model which has nfc built in. Using your yubikey 5ci on ios ipados. The first ios app to offer yubikey support is popular multiplatform password manager lastpass.

Some models that use this port include but are not limited to iphone se iphone 7 iphone 8 iphone x and most modern ipads not including the newest ipad pro which uses a usb c port. The iphone compatible yubikey 5ci is the first featuring usb c and lightning connectors on a single key so it s probably your best option at the moment. The yubikey neo will support otp over nfc for applications that run on ios11 and iphone versions 7.

The yubico authenticator generates a code used to verify your identity as you are logging into various services. Cyberscoop used a beta version prior to the company s announcement and found it to be as straightforward as plugging a yubikey into a laptop or using it via nfc with an android device. The library is provided with a demo application which shows complete examples of how the library can be integrated and demonstrates all the features of this library in an ios project.