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Using yubikey with ssh

While playing with passkeys I asked myself whether my Yubikey could also be used for SSH authentication using passkeys/FIDO2. And it seems for OpenSSH 8.2 and newer this is indeed possible. Its basic setup is described in detail by Yubico. However following that description didn’t work for me. I always got some “sign_and_send_pubkey” error: According […]

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Linux OpenSSH SecureShell SSH

Remotely unlocking encrypted root file systems

In my latest Ubuntu server installation I was aiming for a fully encrypted file system. In order to unlock the file system from remote this requires some extra work – here’s what I found: How does it work? The first obvious question is: If everything is encrypted, how can we even boot up a system? […]