Fresh payload on my cosy little capsule.
Tokens, tokens and more tokens
Posted on 24.04.2026
Over time, I have bought and tried serveral hardware tokens from different suppliers, but instead of using them to their full potential, I just used them to store a bunch of TOTP credentials.
Yes, quite useful, but there are countless apps that can do that without me having to spend cash on additional hardware.
Now I'm finally taking a look at using said tokens to access my servers remotely over SSH without the headache of syncing keyfiles between machines.
I'm already digging through tutorials on this issue and will most probably post once or twice about my progress. For now, here's just a list of the tokens I'm gonna be using.
I paid for all of them myself, there's not sponsoring and the order is just alphabecial.
- Nitrokey 3A NFC. A recent purchase, I have not done much with it yet.
- Nitrokey 3A Mini. Still to be delivered. I pulled the trigger on it after Nitrokey announced a 10% price increase for May 1. This will stay plugged into my notebook, that's why I chose the "Mini" version this time.
- Token2 PIN+ Release3. I wanted to try a different supplier, this time from Switzerland. No real experience yet.
- Token2 PIN+ FIDO2 NFC Card. A whole different form factor. Once I get this out from under all the dust, it's probably move to my wallet as an EDC.
- Yubikey 5 NFC. I keep one on my keychain all the time, another is connected to my main computer at home. I try to keep the TOTP secrets on both up to date and synced.
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