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...which has effectively neither adoption not momentum to achieve adoption: https://sec.okta.com/articles/2020/04/webauthn-great-and-it-sucks https://sec.okta.c
by iskander 5y ago
...which has effectively neither adoption not momentum to achieve adoption: https://sec.okta.com/articles/2020/04/webauthn-great-and-it-sucks https://sec.okta.com/articles/2020/04/webauthn-great-and-it-...
For better or worse, there are a large (and ever growing) number of Metamask users these days...
- meheleventyone 5y agoAbsolutely, but let’s not pretend this is some magic technology that only cryptocurrency can solve. Nor is it clear cut that we’ll see adoption of wallet logins outside of crypto circles.
- codehalo 5y agoThe web3 solution is significantly easier than webauthn, if what I read in the above article is to be believed.
- meheleventyone 5y agoThere’s a trade off there though. There are also other standards. People should probably want their cryptowallets to be better secured than they are. But crypto is facing the same UX challenge which leads to a worse model with the same attendant risks as phishing passwords. The point still is that logging in with public-key cryptography is not exclusively a technology supported by cryptowallets.