Yubikey announces v4 with PKCS#11 smart card features

This is a pretty major announcement as far as Financial Services is 
concerned.

https://www.yubico.com/2015/11/4th-gen-yubikey-4/
https://www.yubico.com/2015/11/yubico-docker-codesign/

Sure, it doesnt support Biometrics but by the time we are ready for Bio, 
the Bio will be ready for us.

PKCS#11 is the underlying mechanism that Government & Financial 
industries uses PIV cards as cryptographic identity.

I believe this even meets NIST/X9 standards on FIPS 2, 3, 4 certified 
device for tokenization and cryptographic operations.

I talked with their CEO Stina about this feature so I am glad they 
exposed it.

This can be used to safely assure transactions even in a compromised 
browser. It seems my security concerns of financial transactions in a 
browser are being systematically removed.

Erik Anderson
Bloomberg

Received on Monday, 23 November 2015 22:30:10 UTC