Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea

Re:Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a... by starfallg on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:02AM (#27154423)

>The fact that 98% of traffic goes trough this new infrastructure

Doesn't mean that 98% of the value of the Internet results from this traffic.

Even if you discount all of the web, there still lots of applications using the federated model (e.g. SMTP) or peer-to-peer (e.g. Crypto, VOIP), that require end-to-end connectivity.

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Re:Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a... by nabla9 on Friday May 14, 2021 @12:07PM (#27155783)

You expand this discussion into completely new direction.

My original point is about capacity and if the old internet could work today. It seems like I'm correct, but I'm not so sure. I would like to see other opinions.

Every response so far is "there exists". The real issue is if the internet could do everything without caching data near the edge.

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