Passkeys are basically the same as ssh keys. What the big tech corporations have "added" is a walled garden. Apparently you can now transfer from one walled gar

Passkeys are basically the same as ssh keys. What the big tech corporations have "added" is a walled garden. Apparently you can now transfer from one walled garden to another walled garden, Apple iCloud Keychain to 1Password or Google or whatever, but they completely distrust users and refuse to allow users to get directly to the private keys. In other words, they've added paternalism. I personally don't want to use any "cloud" syncing service, no matter whose it is. I just want to manage my own credentials and back them up myself, like I do with my passwords. Local-only, with offsite backups controlled only by me, is my principle for almost everything. I don't object to the existence of cloud syncing services, as an option for users, but I do object to the forced paternalism on everyone. One of the great things about passwords is that they are completely device-independent. You can write a password down on a piece of paper. You can do that with an ssh private key too, by the way. It's the ultimate backup that resists all vendor lock-in.