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Re:The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back by a_t48 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:57PM (#30079863)
> Using crypto to sign transactions to verify my identity is actually a very interesting idea, I like it a lot. Much easier than creating a user/pass for every site- just click Sign and go. That's basically the only good UX of web3 as it stands.

We already have this with SSO though - what would be the difference? Decentralization? Though it should be possible to host your own SSO.

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Re:The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back by tialaramex on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:58PM (#30080319)
Right, and if you don't want a single trackable identity, which lots of people don't, a nice modern phone can also WebAuthn using say a fingerprint reader† and so you can have one step sign in (tap sensor, sign in) that way with the resulting "identity" living only on that one site.

† You might be thinking wait, we don't want to be trackable. WebAuthn doesn't have any way of sending fingerprints to anywhere, the phone is using the biometrics to make this not work for bag snatcher, or for the guy snooping your desk while you go get a coffee.

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