• lime!@feddit.nu
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      14 hours ago

      thus rendering them redundant, because their strength is being bound to a single physical device. if they’re portable, they’re as good as asymmetric key pairs.

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        Their strength is being half a cryptographic key, not that they’re device bound.

        That was a “requirement” that big tech wanted, to force you to be dependent on TPM storage, so you’d be forced to use a Trusted™ device and OS. It was made optional after pushback from basically everyone else.

        Password managers support Passkeys now. Bitwarden and KeePassX among others.

        As long as I trust that my password manager is secure, and as long as I use a strong master password or (better) have a hardware key to unlock it, it is way more secure than a password, and I can still install Linux without losing my logins.

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      14 hours ago

      i’m assuming most people will use the default, which will probably be google lock in anyway.