Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoWhat is your "hunch"?message-squaremessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down13
arrow-up145arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your "hunch"?Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·15 hours 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-up4·8 hours agoThe something fucky is that is just centralized public-private key pairs. There’s no need for centralizing that under corporarions. Actually, you lose one of the big featues of public key cryptography. It’s just a power grab from corpos
minus-squaremonkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·13 hours 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 corporarions. Actually, you lose one of the big featues 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.