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by kahnclusions 1082 days ago
Also, most of the marketing totally fails at explaining what passkeys are to both ordinary users AND developers.

What is a passkey? Most material I've read just defines them as a "credential" that is "used as an authentication method." That's it. It's a credential. What kind? Who knows. Only when you arrive at the Apple developer page you finally learn that they are "cryptographic key pairs". And then you start digging into WebAuthn, get a throbbing headache, close your laptop, and do something else productive instead.