Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoWhat is your "hunch"?message-squaremessage-square79linkfedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down14
arrow-up155arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your "hunch"?Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square79linkfedilink
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·4 days agoI have a hunch that there’s something fucky with passkeys, and it’s gonna turn out to be a security and or privacy nightmare in the near future.
minus-squarebarryamelton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoThe something fucky is that is just centralized public-private key pairs. There’s no need for centralizing that under corporations. Actually, you lose one of the big features of public key cryptography. It’s just a power grab from corpos
minus-squaremonkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·4 days agoPasskeys are just public and private keys. They have been securing the internet for decades.
I have a hunch that there’s something fucky with passkeys, and it’s gonna turn out to be a security and or privacy nightmare in the near future.
The something fucky is that is just centralized public-private key pairs. There’s no need for centralizing that under corporations. Actually, you lose one of the big features of public key cryptography.
It’s just a power grab from corpos
Passkeys are just public and private keys. They have been securing the internet for decades.