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Encrypting files with passkeys and age
Encrypting files with passkeys, using the WebAuthn prf extension and the TypeScript age implementation.
Credentials can be stored in platform authenticators (such as end-to-end encrypted iCloud Keychain), in password managers (such as 1Password), or on hardware FIDO2 tokens (such as YubiKeys, although these are not synced). One more thing… since FIDO2 hardware tokens are easily accessible outside the browser, too, we were able to build a age CLI plugin that interoperates with typage security key identity strings: age-plugin-fido2prf. On the last day of this year’s amazing CENTOPASSI motorcycle rallye, we watched the sun set over the plain below Castelluccio, and then rushed to find a place to sleep before the “engines out” time.
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