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I love password based login (lemmy.world)
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What the hell are passkeys? I think outside deep tech forums, nobody knows what they are.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Simplest way I can think to explain it is that it’s similar in concept to SSL. If you understand SSL you should be able to understand passkeys.