Passkeys — The Future is Public Keys
What are they and why you should care
In case you missed this over the past few months, Apple, Google and Microsoft are all moving to the use of passkeys:
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It's still in beta, but the tech is part of an important, larger initiative involving Apple and Microsoft, too.
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Google’s new passkey support is helping kill the password
6:10 PM · Oct 14, 2022
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While it’s being dubbed as a way of “killing the password”, I think there’s a much larger implication of effectively the giants of the previous era moving to public/private key pairs as the base of everything they do. I wonder where that pattern is already adopted? Oh wait, web3.