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by quickcheck 1394 days ago
I thought ‘public’ means it can be shared widely without there being a risk to the private key. What threat model would consider it a risk to have a public key exposed?
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Identity/privacy: de-anonymizing accounts reusing the same public key.
U2F generates a new keypair for each origin. Public keys are not re-used.