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OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members

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Re: OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members

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Cobranded YubiKeys? Weird flex but ok. Seriously though if you are letting agents do whatever they want without a PR process that requires hardware authentication or proof of presence, you are putting your code and your org at high risk.

> want without a PR process that requires hardware authentication or proof of presence Just curious, what do you use for this? I built OTP Guard [1] a few years ago for exactly this problem, although I haven't seen any alternatives in the space. Does GitHub have something built-in now? The original framing was more "local malware compromising your GitHub account" ... it never occurred to me that the malware could be…

My simple process is:

0) agent gets its own separate git user and ssh key, separate from mine

1) branch protection rules on main, only I can approve merges into main

2) any other ssh key uses (interactive login, direct git access, etc.) are ed25519-sk keys and require a touch on yubikey.

TBH, the biggest hole is that it can be unclear exactly what process is requesting a touch on the yubikey. Apple has a head start here because they can lock down the TouchID UX relatively well, but unfortunately they don’t seem to care about building a polished developer experience for 2FA on sensitive tasks.

They are probably waiting for someone else to build the right solution and then copy/steal it.

Re: OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members

#22
post #9

Cobranded YubiKeys? Weird flex but ok. Seriously though if you are letting agents do whatever they want without a PR process that requires hardware authentication or proof of presence, you are putting your code and your org at high risk.

Cobranding is just good marketing at minimal incremental spend when you're running off a batch of hardware.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13635798

Re: OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members

#23
It's a great deal — about 50% off — for those who already wanted a Yubikey.

https://www.yubico.com/store/partner/openai/

Interestingly, I had to switch to my unpaid OpenAI account to access it. I suspect this is because my paid account is registered to a custom.com email address.

Re: OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members

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I was looking at something similar a couple of days ago. I think a physical key like a yubi key is a great way to fight bot traffic. And apparently cloudflare already ran project to test this out, and found some small drawbacks. So they proposed CAP together with other orgs https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/cry...

This might be an extreme case of that, but I can see us going in that direction

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