Protect Your AWS EC2 Private Key with a Yubico Static Password

Ideally, a good information security scheme has a series of factors that make it difficult for an unauthorized person to gain access to protected information or secrets. Unfortunately, if you have a default PEM file that you simply downloaded from your EC2 on AWS, you're only authenticating with something that you have. This means that if someone were to get a hold of your PEM file that person could use it to access your EC2 if they know its …

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