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Swissbit iShield Key 2 Pro

Swissbit’s flagship iShield Key 2 Pro. FIDO2, PIV, and OATH OTP, made in Berlin, with NIS2 and DORA in mind.

Swissbit iShield Key 2 Pro

CTAP 2.1

Supports CTAP 2.1, including features like enforced PIN complexity, credBlob, largeBlob, and alwaysUv

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FIDO2 Certification

Certified by the FIDO Alliance as conforming to FIDO2 standards

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HOTP passwords

Supports Hashed One-Time-Password generation

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Management Application

Vendor provides applications that extend or configure the device

Windows management application

Management application runs on Windows

Resident Cryptographic Keys

Supports WebAuthn discoverable resident credentials, the building block of passkeys

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Resident ECDSA keys

Supports ECDSA discoverable keys

PKCS#11 SmartCard

Conforms to PKCS11 SmartCard interface standards

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Timed OTP passwords

Supports Time-based One-Time-Password generation

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U2F Authentication

Conforms to the U2F Authenticator and WebAuthn standard

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The iShield Key 2 Pro is Swissbit’s current generation flagship. It supports FIDO2, U2F, PIV smart card, OATH HOTP and TOTP, and is available in USB-A plus NFC and USB-C plus NFC. It is manufactured in Berlin.

Swissbit positions the Pro line at organisations preparing for European compliance regimes including NIS2, DORA, and the Cyber Resilience Act, where the made in Europe story matters for procurement. RSA distributes the same hardware as the RSA iShield Key 2 in their channels.

For the variant with a MIFARE DESFire EV3 chip for physical access dual use, see iShield Key 2 Pro MIFARE. For the FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validated variant, see iShield Key 2 Pro FIPS.