The YubiKey Validation Server (YK-VAL) is a server that validates Yubikey One-Time Passwords (OTPs). YK-VAL is written in PHP, for use behind web servers such as Apache.

This server talks to a KSM service for decrypting the OTPs, to avoid storing any AES keys on the validation server. One implementation of this service is the YubiKey-KSM, and another implementation using the YubiHSM hardware is PyHSM.