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0 pointsmeheleventyone4y ago0 comments

You can also do this with other decentralized tech like PGP for example: https://webauthn.guide/

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My understanding is that you could use that to auth with a site where you already have an account or where you’re signing up. But if blockchain enables me to go to a site I’ve never been to and be already signed in with a unique name I reserved on the blockchain, I’m pretty sure that would be a novel thing.

Maybe not enough to swing me over to being a crypto-booster, but this is the first time that someone has shown me anything at all that makes sense.

meheleventyoneOP4y ago

With WebAuthn you could signup with just the auth as well. It's basically the same thing as a wallet private/public key-pair so can do all the same things as a proxy for a universal ID.

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Uehreka4y ago

Maybe not enough to swing me over to being a crypto-booster, but this is the first time that someone has shown me anything at all that makes sense.

meheleventyoneOP4y ago

With WebAuthn you could signup with just the auth as well. It's basically the same thing as a wallet private/public key-pair so can do all the same things as a proxy for a universal ID.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse