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Re:FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move Passke... by izacus on Thursday October 17, 2024 @06:24AM (#41868177)
Yeah, they're more like SSH id_rsa/id_rsa.pub keys you've probably been using for decades.
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Re:FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move Passke... by lxgr on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:01AM (#41868382)
That’s exactly the concern many people here have with passkeys in a nutshell:

SSH keys started out as standardized, interoperable plaintext files (with an option to use GPG smartcards or other hardware credentials or custom SSH agents if you need them).

Passkeys are the opposite. And defaults matter.

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