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josephcsiblelast Wednesday at 1:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

How is this any better than just storing the value in a password manager, or in YubiKey's "Static Password" mode?

Also, the "ECDSA Public Key Recovery" picture makes me suspect this is AI slop.


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sandeepkdlast Wednesday at 3:50 AM

I think if you are doing it in the browser then you bind the flow to the request origin making it phishing resistant compared to a static, origin agnostic storage

csuwldcatlast Wednesday at 1:30 AM

How it's better: automatically synced across all a user's devices, not subject to manual interactions with input fields (you can't programmatically request/regen passwords the same way you can with this).

I did use AI for the ECDSA public key recovery diagram, because I wasn't about to spend hours hand rolling that in Lunacy. It's correct in broad strokes, and anyone who wants to understand it more deeply can just look at the code, imo.

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