Creating a Second Factor Authentication Token
We found all the parts needed to build a simple U2F security token thanks to Github. Here’s the link: https://github.com/conorpp/u2f-zero/wiki/Parts-List Basically there are 8 components per token. All should be surface mount parts. Here’s what you need: PART MANUFACTURER PART NUMBER PRICE PER WHERE TO FIND Microcontroller EFM8UB11F16G-C-QSOP24 $1.38 https://www.digikey.com/ Secure Element (Authentication chip) ATECC508A-SSHDA-B $0.75 …
Today I watched and took notes on a bunch of videos to try and better understand cybersecurity. I also wanted to find out what the general public knew about cybersecurity (through comments). Here are the videos I watched: “Gmail security key?”- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2fEPUtxMhc This guy in the video didn’t really have much of an understanding about U2F …
Learning to desolder takes a lot of time. The first time I tried, it took me almost 30 minutes just to remove 1 component! There’s a lot of technique involved, so every night I try to practice on old circuit boards. When I think I have this under control, I’ll move on to soldering small …
I’ve been working on my co-op for a couple weeks, but this is my first daily update. All my parts are ordered, so right now I’m just trying to learn a lot to prepare for the more hands-on portion of my co-op. Today I studied soldering/desoldering techniques- practicing for hours on old circuit boards, …
Building a custom security token has a lot of learning involved- especially at the beginning. Below is a list of what I have had to research and started to learn so far. Note: I have not even started to build my actual token yet. What I’ve learned so far: Programming Basics: Statements and Functions- syntax, …