SSH login with yubikey using PIV

Introduction This article will take you through setting-up a yubikey to hold your SSH private key. It assumes that you have a PIV-enabled yubikey: PIV, or FIPS 201, is a US government standard. It enables RSA or ECC sign/encrypt operations using a private key stored on a smartcard (such as the YubiKey NEO), through common interfaces like PKCS#11. PIV is primarily used for non-web applications. It has built-in support under Windows, and can be used on OS X and Linux via the OpenSC project. Read more