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by spopejoy 1065 days ago
Until the UX problem is solved making it infallible for noobs to manage PKI, it's probably better for the bank to manage it. Your ideal world at a minimum requires:

- an on-card UI. Yubikey-style one-button-tap is not enough, you actually need to verify the transaction details.

- integration with backend systems to support rotation and recovery because otherwise folks will screw this up and lock themselves out

There's a reason webauthn passkey has obfuscated PKI to oblivion, because they simply can't figure out how to entrust end users with keys.

To be clear, I'm a PKI fan and want all of these things to exist, but we're very far from it. In the interim, a bank-managed PKI is a welcome improvement.