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Call me old fashioned but I distrust any form of authentication that is tied to a specific device.

I might be getting older but my memory is still good enough to remember a couple of secure passwords (secure, as in: 20+ chars long random strings), one of them being a password to my KeePass database, and the other to the email account where I keep a backup copy of it.

I would hate to be locked out of my accounts only because I lost my phone or Yubikey.



Most passkeys are synced to multiple devices.


This is great until you get a memory altering brain injury. Then what?


That's why I have those passwords written down on a piece of paper that I keep in my desk drawer :) /s


KeePassXC can now generate, store and export Passkeys.




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