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submitted 11 months ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 11 months 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.