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Why did WebAuthn beat PAKEs as the preferred password replacement?
Apple and now Google are releasing products that are built on WebAuthn as a replacement for traditional username + passwords. Why did this technology beat out PAKEs?
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Risks with OpenSSL verifying a signature with un-trusted PEM encoded public key
If a website user wants to use WebAuthn, they will start by creating a credential, where their authentication device provides a public key.
This key is encoded, and sent back to the server to store ...
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