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CrimsonCape • today at 7:37 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Do yubikeys suffer from flash memory bit rot? If so, it seems it would best have several backups that rotate once a month to being the primary so that the memory gets used?


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xmodem • today at 7:42 PM

In my anecdotal experience Yubikeys tend to physically deteriorate long before this happens. I still have an early YubiKey 5 that must be 8 years old at this point that I use daily and it works fine.