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15 March 2019, 24 Comments

New Nitrokey HSM 2 with RSA-4096, ECC-521, AES-256

We are excited to announce the long awaited Nitrokey HSM 2. Finally it supports highly secure cryptography with RSA-4096, ECC-521, AES-256, and SHA-512. Supported elliptic curves are: SECG / NIST P-192, P-256, P-521; Bitcoin Koblitz curve secp192k1, secp256k1, secp521k1; Brainpool 192-512. The storage capacity has been increased significantly to store 300x ECC/AES-256 keys, 150x ECC-521 keys, 19x RSA-4096 keys, or 38x RSA-2048 keys. What Nitrokey HSM 2 is used for:

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06 November 2018, 15 Comments

New: Nitrokey FIDO U2F

Now it's finally time to launch our brand-new Nitrokey FIDO U2F. After uncounted hours of hard work, we are very proud to present you our newest product. The Nitrokey FIDO U2F does two things for you: First, it protects your most precious accounts at home and at work. Second, it makes it easy as never before to use two-factor authentication.

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29 October 2018, 0 Comments

Nitrokey Pro 2 Available

The new Nitrokey Pro 2 is now available and can be ordered in our online shop! Nitrokey Pro 2 includes the following new features and improvements:

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01 October 2018, 3 Comments

Nitrokey Partners with Purism to Build the Librem Key

We are partnering with the open source hardware manufacturer Purism—known for its Librem laptop series—to build the Purism Librem Key. This partnership is a milestone on our mission to improve the users' privacy and security with free and open source hardware and software.

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28 June 2018, 13 Comments

Nitrokey Storage 2 Released

The new Nitrokey Storage 2 is now available and can be ordered in our online shop! Nitrokey Storage 2 includes the following new features and improvements:

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14 June 2018, 4 Comments

Security Update for Nitrokey Storage

Under certain circumstances the Nitrokey Storage could use an empty AES key to encrypt the mass storage and Password Safe, allowing an attacker to decrypt the encrypted data. As a precaution all Nitrokey Storage should be updated to firmware 0.51 or higher which prevents unlocking with a zero AES key. Nitrokey Storage with firmware 0.51 or higher and other Nitrokey models are not affected.

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02 April 2018, 0 Comments

Nitrokey Partners With The Linux Foundation to Equip All Linux Kernel Developers With Nitrokey USB Keys

Nitrokey is proud to announce a partnership with The Linux Foundation to equip over 2000 Linux kernel developers with Nitrokey Start USB keys. Linux kernel developers will have the ability to cryptographically sign code with OpenPGP/GnuPG signatures, as a strict requirement when sending merge requests directly to Linus Torvalds.

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24 October 2017, 56 Comments

Nitrokey Start Supports Elliptic Curves (ECC)

RSA-2048 Becomes Increasingly Insecure

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20 October 2017, 2 Comments

Nitrokey is NOT Affected by ROCA Vulnerability

Researchers discovered the ROCA vulnerability (CVE-2017-15361) which enables attackers to compute their victim's private RSA keys with little effort. Affected are RSA keys being generated in various hardware systems which contain the vulnerable chip from Infineon Technologies, such as computers with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), smart cards and USB dongles.

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17 October 2017, 0 Comments

Nitrokey Encryption Tool for Easy Hardware/HSM Integration

Do you need strong hardware-based encryption for your own software but are afraid of it's complex integration? Here is a solution for you. The Nitrokey Encryption Tool is a command line interface application which uses on-device RSA keys to encrypt/decrypt AES keys used in turn to encrypt user data. This way you don't need to deal with hardware integration or more complicated RSA.

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