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Passkeys for a passwordless future (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Future of Passwords

Passwords have been around since like the 60s, but it's taken a long time. The ubiquity of mobile devices made it possible to do this in a way that would scale and reasonably for consumer applications. People just don't want to have to buy and carry something else around with them all the time. It is how we manage account recovery I think is far the biggest technical problem with past keys.

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