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  • Passkeys are basically passwords that you don’t send to the server. So they are safer against phishing.

    Basically the server has a message. They will scramble it with your public key. And send it to you. Your private key unscrambles the message and then you send the message back to them. So if they receive the original message back. They know you are you. And they never got their hands on your private key at any point. It’s awesome.

    2fa is an entirely different thing. And I do wish it was more standard how it works. Some places if you lose it you lose your account (bitwarden). Others you don’t (protonmail).

    Everyone should use passkeys. 2fa you have to decide if your case warrants it.

    Edit: example of passkeys:

    Step 1: they have the message “cat”

    Step 2: they encrypt it with your public key and it becomes “acm”

    Step 3: they send you the encrypted message “acm”

    Step 4: you decrypt the message “acm” into “cat” with your private key.

    Step 5: you send them back the message “cat”

    Only your private key would be able to decrypt something encrypted with your public key. So they now know you are you. And they never got a hand on your private key. It’s the same as a password except you never send it directly to the server.











  • shapis@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldMany such cases
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    5 months ago

    Nah, I wanna hear about bugs that have affected you that you can confirm are bugs :-)

    I’m glad you asked. 5 seconds ago gnome froze and sent me back into the login screen and closed all the apps I had open. Ask me again in 20 seconds and I’m sure I’ll have a different bug for ya.