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Passkeys for a passwordless future (Changelog Interviews #544)

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The Importance of Past Keys in WebAuthn

The goal of WebAuthn and past keys was phishing resistant authentication. A huge part of that is tying a credential to a device and also cryptographically tying a device to a domain. This kind of somewhat reminds me of people who focus on backups, but not recovery. Right. So it's just sort of comes with the protocol, but it was all kept with security in mind.

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