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Re:Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust on Sunday November 16, 2025 @01:45PM (#45947353)
There's a lot of unsafe in this at least. hard to be both safe and fast.
materialize now offers a self managed version of the product https://materialize.com/docs/self-managed/v25.1/
Re:Hype Will Turn Your Security Key into Junk on Thursday July 13, 2023 @08:58PM (#36718168)
passkeys are really defined by the FIDO Alliance

Based on FIDO standards, passkeys are a replacement for passwords that provide faster, easier, and more secure sign-ins to websites and apps across a user’s devices. Unlike passwords, passkeys are always strong and phishing-resistant.

[1] https://fidoalliance.org/passkeys/

Re:Passkeys Public Beta on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:30PM (#36698330)
a passkey can be created for any FIDO2 compliant website. additionally by relying on well understood and maintained implementations of WebAuthn and FIDO2 you would have greater guarantees of security of your authentication.

you're right that at its guts it does still rely on an asymmetric key pair. but FIDO passkey implementations are certified and have been built for enterprise and consumer grade use cases.

for macos and iOS, implementations will normally be using your keychain and are providing an easy user experience on top of your keychain