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agwa • yesterday at 11:18 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Well, it's a fair question why Webauthn ended up so much more complicated, which has unquestionably been a hindrance to adoption.


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crote • today at 2:21 AM

Because the various cloud providers want to lock you into their own proprietary ecosystem, of course. How else could they in the future force you to pay a subscription to be allowed to log in to any website?

drhagen • yesterday at 11:32 PM

Admittedly, my experience comes from OAuth and Webauthn. I have yet to try to implement passkeys. My exposer to passkeys comes completely from long blog posts complaining about it.

cowlevel • today at 12:51 AM

Design by committee