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		thyristan 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Encrypting files with passkeys and age That is correct. What I mean is that if there had been any widespread interest, then browser-makers would probably have fixed their UI/UX long ago. But since there never was any interest, nothing was fixed.

lxgr 10 months ago [–]

There is tremendous interest. TLS client certificates are just a categorically wrong solution to user authentication.

thyristan 10 months ago | [–]

It is basically the same solution as Passkeys. CA involvement in TLS client auth is totally optional.

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