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Passkeys still involve storing a secret, which I think is fundamentally what all security/authentication is built around. Passkey eliminates a lot of the issues with passwords (transmitting the plain text to the app, password reuse, simple passwords).

If you've been using a password manager with randomly generated passwords you've already addressed some of these issues so the benefits of using passkeys over passwords is reduced.



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