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Comment by digiown

Passkey/webauthn is a cool tech, and I'd really like to use it everywhere, but I find the anti-user attitudes of the spec authors concerning. The spec contains provisions about "user verification" (the software must force user interaction) and not allowing the user to access the plaintext keys. It appears that the spec authors do not consider the keys to be owned by the user at all.

KeepassXC implements passkey support, but they do not implement these anti-user features. As a result, they are being threatened with being banned via attestation:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407

Screw these "You'll own nothing and be happy" people. I'll own all my keys no matter what. The software I run on my device should never betray me to signal things like "this passkey is allowed to be backed up!".

parent digiown 8 months ago

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