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Nitrokey

Provides robust USB-based encryption, digital signing, and secure login with hardware-level secret key storage, user-defined PIN, tamper-proof smart card, open source design, email and data encryption compatibility, virus protection, and multi-platform support.

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  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Flathub
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  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Two-factor Authentication
  2.  Hardware securite module (HSM)
  3.  Time-based One-time Password
  4.  HMAC-Based One-Time Password (HOTP)
  5.  Password safe
  6.  OpenPGP
  7.  PGP Encryption
  8.  Biometric Authentication
  9.  Works Offline
  10.  Passkey Support
  11.  Portable
  12.  FIDO U2F (2FA) support
  13.  S/MIME Support

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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Nitrokey, and it has gotten 25 likes

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Top Positive Comment
NickFreeman
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good open source alternative to yubikey

Gabinator9
-3

Open source which is good, however severely lacking in several areas such as build quality, looks, and function as well as not being cross platform, despite it being closed source, id recommend yubikey a lot more

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What is Nitrokey?

Nitrokey is an USB key to enable highly secure encryption and signing of emails and data, as well as login to the Web, networks and computers. Other than ordinary software solutions, the secret keys are always stored securely inside the Nitrokey. Their extraction is impossible which makes Nitrokey immune to computer viruses and Trojan horses. The user-chosen PIN and the tamper-proof smart card protect in case of loss and theft. Hardware and software are both available as Open Source to allow verifying the security and integration with other applications.