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“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.

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[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And we all remember the huge drama about it because they allowed for taking the keys out and backup them up.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

I think a big part of it was exporting them plain text by default. I'm in the "I know what I'm doing" camp but I guess for someone who doesn't that sort of handholdy stuff not allowing the export them without encryption stuff makes sense.