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Apple announced Passkey in WWDC'22 a couple of months ago. Both Microsoft and Google quickly followed suit, announcing their support in the RSA and IdentiVerse conferences. Passkey is promising to potentially replace passwords eventually, but the road to that promise may be long and bumpy. There are at least 3 issues that will prevent a...
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This post will examine the cryptography behind passkeys, the guarantees they do or do not give, and interesting cryptographic things you can do with them, such as generating cryptographic keys and storing certificates.
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Passkeys are a modern alternative to passwords, where the user's device performs the authentication, usually requiring some form of user verification (biometric identification, PIN). Passkeys are built on top of WebAuthn specification, which is based on public-key cryptography. Keypairs are created for each website, and the public key is sent to the server, while the private key is securely stored on the device. This makes passkeys:
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A little bit of a background in case you're not computer savvy, all of computer software is written using a programming language in plain-text files. These f...
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