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by esafak 193 days ago
You can use a random numerical ID as PK and let people associate as many authn IDs as they want after logging in with one.
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Reubachi 192 days ago
Who in this scenario outlines the key infrastructure, and how is the private key maintained?
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esafak 192 days ago
primary key. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_key
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thiht 193 days ago
Why would you allow this complexity for basically nothing?
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esafak 192 days ago
Using a separate table for authn is a basic pattern for this problem. What would you do?
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