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Remember not to broadcast your login credentials on national television (media.piefed.social)

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Passkeys are an implementation of a public-key cryptography. The service has the public key, you have the private key. The sites don’t give you anything, you give them the public-key which is generated using your private key. https://www.passkeys.com/ explains a lot of it.