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Re:Passkeys – Under the Hood by arccy on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:10AM (#39734956)
This is why they're pushing passkeys in phones' secure element with cloud account sync: getting people to keep a separate set of hardware keys is nigh impossible at scale.
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Re:Passkeys – Under the Hood by lxgr on Sunday March 17, 2024 @02:42PM (#39736827)
Sure, but why not preserve the option for people to use hardware keys?

Unfortunately, both the FIDO and WebAuthN working groups seem to be dead-set on making the hardware authenticator use case as painful as possible [1] [2] [3].

I just don't get it. Why even try to pretend that WebAuthN is a single API for both use cases when all stakeholders in charge seem to have given up on one of them?

[1] https://github.com/fido-alliance/how-to-fido/issues/16

[2] https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1612

[3] https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1822

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