What you are talking about is called Web3 and doesn't get a lot of love here. It's about empowering users to take full control of their own finances, identity, and data footprint, and I agree that it's the only sane way forward.
Smartphones & computers are a joke from a security standpoint.
The closest solution to this problem has been what people in the crypto community have done with seed phrases & hardware wallets. But this is still too psychologically taxing for the masses.
Untill that problem of intuitive, simple & secure key management is solved. Cryptography as a general tool for personal authentication will not be practical.
Literally requires the exact same cognitive load as using keys to start your car. The problem is that so many people got comfortable delegating all their financial and data risk to third parties, and those third parties aren't excited about giving up that power.
This perfectly describes the current situation with passkeys.
Passkeys are a great idea--they are like difficult, if not impossible-to-guess passwords generated for you and stored in a given implementor's system (Apple, Google, your password manager, etc.).
Until passkey systems support key export and import, I predict that they will see limited use.
Who wants to trust your passkeys to a big corporation or third party? Vendor lock-in is a huge issue that cannot be overlooked.
Let me generate, store, and backup MY passkeys where I want them.
That doesn't solve the general "I don't want to have to manage my keys" attitude that some people have, but it prevents vendor lock-in.
Most crypto wallets do have import/export enabled though, so if you're logging in with a web3 identity, everything should just work.
Why not have key export and import?
Are they my keys or not?
>> Just create new passkeys on whatever device or service you want, and register those as well.
I would rather not have different keys for each device for each account. It is an unnecessary combinatorial explosion of keys that requires more effort than is really needed.
When you get a new device, you need to generate and add new keys for every account. Why can't you just import existing keys?
The "problem" is that most people prefer to not lose their life savings because their cat stole a little piece of metal and dropped it in the forest.
>The "problem" is that most people prefer to not lose their life savings because their cat stole a little piece of metal and dropped it in the forest.
Other options exist now, and I think that's pretty great, even for people who prefer using banks. The competition forces banks to provide better services to their customers, which improves quality of life for everyone.
Nooo... if they talk about something being safe, they mean safe for THEM and their political interests. Not for you. They mean censorship.