Re:Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
by wkat4242 on Saturday December 21, 2024 @01:17AM
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True. That is a problem. Especially because with Webauthn you can't just enrol a public key. It's one of the reasons I like openpgp for authentication e.g. over SSH. I can just give it a list of public keys to accept without having all those keys actually to hand.
Even when/if sites do allow multipe passkeys per account, the fundamental contradiction remains: Your backup key(s) are supposed to be kept somewhere secure where they won't get lost, stolen or destroyed, which ideally means some sort of off-site backup (at your bank or whereever), but at the same time every time you register for a new service you do need to register all your backup keys, too.