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		shawnz on July 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Passkeys will come at a cost Why not just store the master key in the tamper resistant storage and then have some regular old consumer grade storage to store all the derived keys?

dandanua on July 13, 2023 [–]

This allows to copy derived keys easily, which ruins the purpose of the whole security key idea.

rcxdude on July 13, 2023 | [–]

only if the master key can be extracted (assuming the keys are encrypted by such)

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