I was pretty excited to test out the YubiKey 4 and YubiKey 4 Nano, but it turned out that the main feature I was looking for, wasn’t included.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd8swT3DOFo&feature=youtu.be

 

PROS

• Very small
• Very cheap
• Neat idea

CONS

• Does not work to log into your Mac (you need to fill in a pin instead, but what’s the advantage of that?)
• Very difficult and long process to setup (don’t tell me I don’t know anything about PC’s or Mac’s, it was very difficult, promised!)
• It just doesn’t work as I expected/intended

VERDICT

You would think that such a small neat thing you can put into your USB would work as a replacement for your Mac-password? No it doesn’t. Not for me at least. I tried installing this so I could login to my Mac by just pressing the YubiKey (you could see it like a key you’d use to open your door), but that did not work at all. In fact: in generated a very long and random password, containing a lot of letters (see the video). I guess these YubiKeys can do different things, like logging in to Gmail or Dropbox, but the most useful thing: logging into your pc, where you have to fill in your password every day for at least 10 times, was not featured. A bit disappointing, but I still hope I did something wrong when installing this thing…