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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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09 October 2017, 0 Comments

Initiative „Starke Authentisierung – jetzt!“ zur Vorbeugung gegen Cyber-Kriminalität gestartet

Vor dem Hintergrund der zahlreichen Sicherheitsvorfälle bei Anbietern von Online-Diensten und den damit verbundenen, oftmals millionenschweren Fällen von Identitätsdiebstahl haben sich Experten zu einer verbandsübergreifenden Initiative Starke Authentisierung - jetzt! zusammengefunden.

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07 October 2017, 0 Comments

Nitrokey In the Press

Last year we were excited to see that the German magazine c’t published an article ranking Nitrokey Pro as their #1 recommended Christmas gift. We were also mentioned by WIRED and other media sources.

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27 September 2017, 0 Comments

Buying Nitrokeys With Bitcoins

Due to numerous requests from our customers and in order to make (especially international) payments more attractive, we have added Bitcoin as an accepted payment method in our online shop. If you're not sure what to do with your increasingly valuable Bitcoins, this is for you too.

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19 September 2017, 15 Comments

Using Nitrokey on Android Phones

Finally it is possible to use Nitrokey on Android smartphones. OpenKeychain, the popular Android app for OpenPGP encryption, supports Nitrokey. You can use your private keys on your Nitrokey to encrypt, decrypt and sign emails using OpenKeychain.

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19 September 2017, 0 Comments

Nitrokey App, Library and CLI

Our Nitrokey App, which is the GUI used for one-time passwords, password safe and Nitrokey Storage, has been completely restructured and has undergone tons of bug-fixes. The low-level device interface has been moved into the new libnitrokey, which can be directly integrated into your own applications.

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19 September 2017, 0 Comments

Login With Nitrokey to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Due to technical limitations Nitrokey’s one-time passwords previously couldn’t be used to login to Amazon Web Services (AWS). But now with the Nitrokey Pro 0.8 (released in November 2016), one-time passwords can also be used to protect your AWS account. An appropriate firmware update for Nitrokey Storage will be released next.

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19 September 2017, 0 Comments

Nitrokey Enrollment Station With privacyIDEA

privacyIDEA is a modular authentication server that can be used to enhance the security of existing applications such as local login, VPN, remote access, SSH connections, and access to web sites and web portals with second factor authentication. privacyIDEA runs on Linux and is completely open source, licensed under the AGPLv3.

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03 October 2016, 16 Comments

Nitrokey Storage is Available

We are very proud to announce the availability of the long anticipated Nitrokey Storage. From now on the new Nitrokey Storage can be ordered in our online shop. The Nitrokey Storage is our new flagship device with exciting new features:

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13 May 2016, 0 Comments

Delivery Date of Nitrokey Storage and Other News

During our crowdfunding campaign last year we estimated the shipping date of the Nitrokey Storage would be 2 May 2016. As we have previously mentioned, the time-critical aspect of the project is the development of the plastic casing. We have already made three revisions to the design of the casing and this week we received the latest sample of the casing. Unfortunately the casing isn't ready yet which is why we have had to postpone the release date of the Nitrokey Storage to June.

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