Unlocking the Web: Exploring WebAuthn & Beyond • Eli Holderness & Mark Rendle

Jan 5, 2024

Mark Rendle interviews Eli Holderness, a developer advocate at Scaleway, about WebAuthn and the future of web authentication. They discuss topics such as public key cryptography, hardware security tokens, passwordless authentication challenges, data privacy, and the potential impact of WebAssembly on cloud computing. The conversation also touches on preferences in search engines, data bunkers, quantum computers, and casual interests in linguistics and retro gaming.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Understanding WebAuthn and Hardware Tokens

02:15 • 10min

Preferences, Personalization, and Privacy in Search Engines and Technology Platforms

12:25 • 3min

Data Bunkers and Quantum Computers

15:41 • 10min

A Casual Conversation about Interests

25:52 • 2min