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>I hope this is the year that WebAuthN goes mainstream - but it'll be a long time before a plurality of sites support it.

Oh for sure, like I said passwords will undoubtedly have a long tail. Even more so for internal apps/hardware, I routinely deal with old stuff that I have to keep old browsers around to access since newer ones no longer will work, or reenable old SSH negotiation or whatever. I'm just hoping 2023 is when we start to see a critical mass, and further that it ends up being a non-linear adoption curve that goes better then we might expect. If it becomes a standard check box item for insurance or security assessments or interacting with other companies/government and gets integrated as default into widely used frameworks it might go quicker. I also expect adoption not to be randomly distributed, with important tech services more likely to pick it up or use it already. If financial and medical does as well then that'd hit a lot of the most vital ones even if it's not a plurality.

Realistically it'll probably take another few years after hitting the tipping point to truly ramp, since there are clearly remaining hardware and software rough edges to sand down/refine. But if 2023 proves the start of an S-curve I'll be happy.