Re:The Cryptography Behind Passkeys
by withinboredom on Thursday May 15, 2025 @05:51AM
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Generally, they should be able to get into any account with a death certificate, even if they don't know the password. It just takes longer. It took like 4 months for a friend to gain access to their dad's one-drive account to access photos on their computer.
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This is not possible if the data on the server is encrypted with the key derived from the person's password or a completely independent key and no escrow has ever been implemented. That's why, for example, you can't read my old Wire messages or look at photos that I sent and received there, even if you fake my death certificate.
Re:The Cryptography Behind Passkeys
by toomuchtodo on Thursday May 15, 2025 @12:00PM
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Legacy contacts are the pattern here.
No chance that's happening with Google.
Good luck not getting burnt by Google's classic lack of support... https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1fclx16/google_dece...