The biggest difference between a standards-based FIPS PIV card and a YubiKey running the PIV applet is not the cryptography. It is who controls the card life cycle: the vendor, the issuer or the enterprise.
The biggest difference between a standards-based FIPS PIV card and a YubiKey running the PIV applet is not the cryptography. It is who controls the card life cycle: the vendor, the issuer or the enterprise.
Learn how Arduino developers can prototype secure signing workflows with a Cryptnox hardware wallet smartcard while keeping private keys out of microcontroller firmware, serial logs, and exposed embedded memory.