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Major implementers are definitely over-complicating things; making perfect the enemy of the good in a way that's hindering adoption. They want to make phishing
by Ajedi32 2y ago
Major implementers are definitely over-complicating things; making perfect the enemy of the good in a way that's hindering adoption. They want to make phishing impossible, not just "really hard", and doing that requires portability features to be ridiculously over-complicated and somewhat at odds with user freedom. In my opinion they should give up on that for now and just let users export a plaintext database the same way they can with any other password manager.
Regarding b) it's extremely simple. Passkeys are private keys (like SSH), stored in a password manager, accessed via JavaScript.
- apitman 2y agoAgreed. Highly portable passkeys get you 90% of the way to where we want to be. I'm looking at implementing passkey support for my authentication library and considering only supporting major password managers because they have solid interaperability between ecosystems.