I want to buy 2 keys for various activities.
I want to use it to store gpg keys, ssh keys, fido2 etc.
As USB-A is older but the key is so tiny, I am wondering if the only difference between the Nitrokey3 mini and the Nitrokey 3 with USB-C is really just NFC?
AFAIK on GrapheneOS NFC doesnt even work, so I just want a normal USB key.
Do they have the same storage space? I couldnt find anything on that.
Hey @RochenJochen
technically these are two different MCUs, so one difference is also that the Mini comes with more free blocks on the internal filesystem, which will soon (once we activated the dynamic passkey capacity) to more available passkeys to be saved on the Mini compared to the NFC variants. This is more or less the trade-off here - apart from that the external memory we put on the devices is the same, so OpenPGPCard keys and/or secrets are unaffected by this.
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so, the mini, where nearly all storage space is inside the USB-A enclosure, has more storge space???
This is crazy!
Do these keys work with the official Google USB-A to USB-C adapters? Then I might buy two minis, because they would be equally big with an adapter
The electronics are nearly identical - key difference is the nfc antenna, which takes a lot of space. In detail the Mini also doesn’t really have more space, but it’s arranged differently (smaller blocks) which is better suited for the small data blocks we want to write.
We haven’t had any reports on not working USB-A / USB-C converters so I would assume the most should work without issues.
thanks!
