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Like SoloKeys? The Solo 2 has a firmware written in Rust: https://solokeys.com

I purchased a few solo key 2s but have ended up pretty disappointed. Keys ended up being delivered with bent usb connectors which worries me that they will break prematurely.

And the documentation, at least when I received the keys, felt incomplete and hard to find; it did not give me confidence in the product.

I still use them as a backup key, but I decided to just by two yubikeys as my main keys.

Really like the SoloKeys... but once you go at the level of small or large MNC they do business with people like YubiCo etc only. Never with tiny shops. (Sad)

Anybody have a solokey, or have some feedback? I wanted to buy some, but the comments about bent connectors put me off, as well as the supply issues for usb-c

I backed their crowdfunding campaign back in the day. Due to $REASON I didn't test all of them when I got them, but when I got around to it two out of four were broken (the broken ones had USB-C). Their support didn't help at all (why should they? but they could have offered me keys for a better price...)

With that said, I had a Yubikey Neo die for me as well (NFC still worked, USB totally dead) - Yubikey offered me a new key for a discount.

Solo 2 fixed the bent connectors issue. Solo 2 USB-C has supply issues, you'll probably have to wait a couple of months to get one.

solokeys2 is physically better than solokeys1, but firmware is buggier

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