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Re:Login with a Public Ed25519 Key by addingnumbers on Sunday February 27, 2022 @01:07AM (#30485834)
The fact that it's a bare-bones technical demonstration and an idiot would have no wherewithal or purpose to implement it.
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Re:Login with a Public Ed25519 Key by md_ on Sunday February 27, 2022 @08:19AM (#30488146)
But then what's it actually demonstrating? That public key cryptography can be used to...validate that someone has a private key?

I feel like I knew that already. ;)

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