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>Why aren't we logging into everywhere with public keys, if the technology is so old? Well, it's not because we didn't have blockchain technology before, but be
by bragr 5y ago
>Why aren't we logging into everywhere with public keys, if the technology is so old? Well, it's not because we didn't have blockchain technology before, but because decentralized identity was not the goal before.
Let's not gloss over that key management is a hard problem, even for technical people, and that's a major reason this has not been particularly practical. FWIW this is also a problem for most blockchain based technologies.
- kemayo 5y agoYeah, there's a real benefit to identifying myself with an account tied to a big company: they can reset my password if I forget it. (Or if my laptop gets stolen and it turns out my backup is corrupted, for the passwordless private key case. And assuming widespread use of backups is already quite the reach.) Any technology that makes this impossible is not going to get mass-adoption.