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You're sacrificing everything the Yubikey does beyond U2F. Yubikey can support U2F, but also generates one time passwords, and appears as a smart card to your operating system allowing you to keep PGP/SSH keys on it.


A better comparison is the Yubico Fido U2F key, which just does U2F. https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/fido-u2f-se...




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