{"id":16084,"date":"2015-08-13T01:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T08:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/dropbox-now-lets-you-log-in-with-a-usb-key-for-universal-2nd-factor-authentication"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:24","slug":"dropbox-now-lets-you-log-in-with-a-usb-key-for-universal-2nd-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/dropbox-now-lets-you-log-in-with-a-usb-key-for-universal-2nd-factor-authentication","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox now lets you log in with a USB key for universal 2nd factor authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dropbox-now-lets-you-log-in-with-a-usb-key-for-universal-2nd-factor-authentication.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dropbox today announced that it has started to allow users to log in using USB keys as a universal second factor (U2F) of authentication.<\/p>\n<p>U2F, a protocol promoted by the FIDO Alliance, isn\u2019t the most trendy form of secure authentication for consumer web services. What\u2019s far more common is two-factor authentication that you can sign on with by entering a code that\u2019s sent to your phone. Dropbox already allows its users to do that, but now it\u2019s gone further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter typing in your password, just insert your key into a USB port when you\u2019re prompted, instead of typing in a six-digit code,\u201d Dropbox\u2019s Patrick Heim and Jay Patel wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dropbox.com\/dropbox\/2015\/08\/u2f-security-keys\/\">blog post<\/a> today. \u201cAnd unlike two-step with a phone, you\u2019ll never have to worry about your battery going dead when you use a security key.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onvb.co\/tjDpkNL\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox today announced that it has started to allow users to log in using USB keys as a universal second factor (U2F) of authentication. U2F, a protocol promoted by the FIDO Alliance, isn\u2019t the most trendy form of secure authentication for consumer web services. What\u2019s far more common is two-factor authentication that you can sign [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69731,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16084\/revisions\/69731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}