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About Public Key Cryptography (May 2023 Update)
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Security experts say there's no such thing as uncrackable encryption—it's just math that should take thousands of years to solve with current technology.
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A clear introduction to passkeys and public key cryptography.
It opens with passwords as the weak point and uses that to move into passkeys and public key cryptography. The central idea is easy to follow: passkeys keep the key on the device, so the service never has a password to store or lose.
Why you'd press play
If passwords still run your life, this explains why passkeys are one of the most promising ways out.
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