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There are a couple of differences:

1. While a password manager should associate a TOTP seed with a domain and only fill codes on that domain, the codes are still visible to you. A convincing phishing attack might trick you into manually entering a code into a fake page. Passkeys don't allow this.

2. TOTP codes are derived from a seed shared between the client and server, so an attacker who gets read access to the server's database could generate your codes. With passkeys, the server can only validate a signature, not generate them.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Minecraft authentication requires a Microsoft account. People may not want to have one for ideological reasons, or not want to attach a game to the account they use for other purposes.

Also, not encouraging it, but disabling authentication allows players with pirated copies of MC to play on the server

Comment · 11 years ago

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