Once you're done with that, click on Verify and you're good to go. You need to enter the six digit code and to verify and finish the entire set up. As long as your platform supports two factor authentication, then you can basically use this OTP method. If you have experience with the Google Authenticator app, that's basically a OTP protocol where every 30 seconds the Authenticator app is going to generate a 6 digit codes for you to enter in order to log into your platform. Method 2: One-Time Password (OTP, TOTP)Īnd now I'm going to show you guys a second way to use the Yubikey, which stands for One-Time Password (OTP) or Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP). This list is very long and you can check it out yourself to see if your daily application that supports the U2F protocol. There's many other platforms you can see. And you can see here the most popular ones we use on a daily basis could be Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Government UK, Epic Games, etc. If you're trading crypto, I'm going to make a separate post on the crypto subject alone where I'm going to cover Coinbase, Binance and other exchanges. What I just showed you is Google accounts. For that extra layer of security, I'm going to click on 'Generate Backup Code' option and enter your Google password. If I lost all these Yubikeys, I'm able to use this one time passcode to still be able to login to my Google account just in case. What I'm going to do is generate a backup code. However, I strongly recommend you guys to do one more step. So moving on forward, I can use any one of these keys to log into my Google account. Generate Google Backup CodeĪnd now I have successfully added three Yubikeys into my Google account. In this case, I'm going to add two more times into my Google account. One of them is going to be at home, the other one is going to be carried around on my keychain and the third one is going to be a backup (put it somewhere secure). So my plan is to use two devices on a daily basis. I'm going to eject this Yubikey I just inserted. That's it! We've just successfully added the Yubikey into your Google account.

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