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I don't get Passkeys...
Hi all, I'm sorry if this is a dumb post, but after a bit of online exploration, I just don't understand how passkeys relate to 1Password. I've been using the latter for years, in what I *think* is a...
Passkeys are an example of public key cryptography. A flawed phsyical analogy: you have a key which splits in two, you give copies of the "public" half to the owners of all the doors which you want to unlock for them to install in the locks, but only when you insert your "private" half does the key open the lock.
1Password is handling all the key creation, storage, sharing, and the protocol for using it for you, leaving you to choose where and when to use each one. The only part not yet fully worked out is how to safely take your private keys out of 1Password or bring an existing key into 1Password (but they are working on it).
