Using YubiKey to Protect Email With MFA
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6 min readMar 27, 2022
Electronic mail has been around for over 40 years, and we still have not managed to properly secure it. The emails we receive are often not digitally signed, and where we cannot really tell if the email has been read by anyone else and where we can’t prove the sender. So let’s look at MFA (Multi-factor Authentication) for secure email, and only let it be accessible with a YubiKey that stores the private key for a given…