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Using a strong authentication is a must, and I’m always careful to enable and enforce additional factors beyond ‘just’ a username and a password. For multiple reasons, you tend to end up with more than a dozen of these – different Microsoft services might require a fresh one, or you need to separate and segregate certain services with different accounts. They used to be called Live ID’s when I was young. One of the necessary credentials are my Microsoft Accounts (MSAs). There are over 1,000 secrets stored, and obviously, I don’t need to use all of them daily or even weekly. If you have some other question or comments about the Yubikey, leave them behind here below and I will contact you as soon as possible.I had a look at the number of passwords I have stored in my password manager software. Login with the Yubikey is a little bit faster then login with the Authenticator App.

You can use the Yubikey at multiple computers. But I had already the Authenticator App installed and configured for my Microsoft Account. Oké, the Yubikey is handy to login at the Microsoft websites without filling in a password. That should work.Īt this moment the YubiKey 5 is not yet supported to log on into Windows 10.

Now sign out of your Microsoft account and try to sign in again with your security key.

Touch the golden sensor of the security key.

Click on the “More security options” tile.

Go to the “Update your security info” tile.

Start your Edge (or Edge Chromium) browser.

First you need to have Windand a supported Yubikey.

How to setup a FIDO2 Key for your Microsoft account? The user only has to press a button on the security key to log into a website if they use a browser (such as Edge) that supports the WebAuthn web API, which connects the FIDO 2 hardware to a website’s server. The FIDO2 security key replaces both but works much like a U2F key by using public key cryptography.

So I bought a Yubico Yubikey 5 NFC at Bol.com and configured it for my Microsoft Account.Ī FIDO2 key is not to be confused with a FIDO U2F security key, which works as a second authentication factor for a password. I hope that I can clearify some things up for this topic. But why should I login via a FIDO2 device like a Yubikey 5? Password-less login is since Windavailable via the Edge Browser and also the Edge on Chromium browsers.