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krypton-ios

DEPRECATED Krypton turns your iOS device into a WebAuthn/U2F Authenticator: strong, unphishable 2FA.

5Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
337GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

DEPRECATED Krypton turns your iOS device into a WebAuthn/U2F Authenticator: strong, unphishable 2FA.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:56:55 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-05-18 12:04:08 UTC to 2021-01-17 18:37:45 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
>Not everyone likes to have their (door) keys hanging off their notebooks all day. As if a whole phone is better... That's not a requirement with a yubikey anyway. Mine hangs on a lanyard on a dust plug. Many people have yubikey nanos and basically leave them plugged in their laptop all the time. >I was talking about the free beer kind of free, but it's not accurate to say YubiKey is all free (libre) Kryptonite is not libre. It's not even free. It's all rights reserved. https://github.com/kryptco/kryptonite-ios/blob/master/LICENS... Yubico piv tool is 2 clause BSD, which is GPL compatible. >Personally, I'm fine with closed-source security products. So is RMS, assuming device software is fixed. See his comments on microwave ovens. Yubikey fits this description. Firmware is not updatable, for better security. Anyone who is trying to make a
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controversy out of what yubico is doing is either more extreme than RMS, dumb, or a competitor.
In A Case of Stolen Source Code
The app uses kSecAttrAccessibleAfterFirstUnlockThisDeviceOnly[1]. Quoting the relevant iOS documentation[2]: > After the first unlock, the data remains accessible until the next restart. This is recommended for items that need to be accessed by background applications. Items with this attribute do not migrate to a new device. Thus, after restoring from a backup of a different device, these items will not be present. [1]: https://github.com/kryptco/kryptonite-ios/blob/42c71d6381def... [2]: https://developer.apple.com/reference/security/ksecattracces...
In A Case of Stolen Source Code

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