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Re:What auth do you use? Why? by CGamble26 on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:52PM (#35910914)
This may be a dumb question but, why couldn’t applications just use Webauthn? Why add passwords?
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Re:What auth do you use? Why? by vdelitz on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:25AM (#35915911)
The only reason probably if some accounts already have a password and you want to support it. If you're building a new app, I'd also go for WebAuthn / passkeys-only and use some other passwordless method (e.g. social login/OIDC or email magic links as fallbacks)
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Re:What auth do you use? Why? by CGamble26 on Sunday May 14, 2023 @12:02PM (#35938947)
Ok understood, thank you very much!
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