Two factor authentication to connect to SFTP in C#

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I was trying to connect to SFTP through code to upload some data. As it has two factor authentication, I need to do some authentication with the Yubikey device before connecting to SFTP. I have written the code to authenticate but I am getting exceptions while authenticating the yubikey device. Is there anything I am doing wrong? Can someone please suggest if there's any better way to do it.

Initially, I was getting error of yubikey pin is more than 8 characters. I have trimmed and captured the first 8 characters to authenticate. Initially, yubikey authentication was successful but was failing in connecting to SFTP and was giving me exception, 'No suitable authentication method found to complete authentication (keyboard-interactive).'" .

But after few attempts, even the yubikey authentication code was failing and giving the exception "There are no retries remaining for a PIN, PUK, or other authentication element".

What I have tried:

try
           {
               YubiKeyDevice yubiKeyDevice =
                   (YubiKeyDevice)YubiKeyDevice.FindAll().FirstOrDefault();
               if (yubiKeyDevice == null)
               {
                   return;
               }

   // Captures yubikey pin here

               using (var pivSession = new PivSession(yubiKeyDevice))
               {
                   yubiKeyPin = yubiKeyPin.Substring
                                (0, Math.Min(yubiKeyPin.Length, 8));

                   byte[] pinBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(yubiKeyPin);
                   bool result = pivSession.TryVerifyPin
                                 (pinBytes, out retriesRemaining);

                   if (result)
                   {
                       using (var client = new SftpClient
                             (host, port, username, password))
                       {
                           try
                           {
                               client.Connect();

                               if (client.IsConnected)
                               {
                                   // Now you can proceed with file upload
                                   using (var fileStream =
                                   new FileStream(sourcefile, FileMode.Open))
                                   {
                                       client.UploadFile
                                       (fileStream, destinationpath +
                                        System.IO.Path.GetFileName
                                       (sourcefile));
                                   }
                               }
                           }
                           finally
                           {
                               client.Disconnect();
                           }
                       }
                   }
               }
           }