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Why is this downvoted? It's 100% correct, except the distinction is not FIDO vs FIDO2, it's "resident key mode" vs not (FIDO2 supports both, and does non-resident keys in the way described above).

Yes, the fact that you need flash storage for FIDO2 resident credentials is unfortunate, but that's why I'm exited about the new SoloKeys, which I heard will have enough flash space for thousands of keys. In comparison, the Yubikey has 25, which makes it useless for what I want it, and they don't even advertise that limitation anywhere.

Logging in with this usernameless mode is just amazing, you can go to an untrusted computer, plug the key in, tap a button and you're logged in with no possibility of any credential theft anywhere (just make sure to log out afterwards).



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