Feb 19 · 6 min read · Cryptography is precise. Browsers are not. If you’ve implemented WebAuthn in a real PWA, you already know this:The spec is clean. The user experience is not. The uncomfortable truth is this: Most authentication systems fail because of UX, not becaus...
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Feb 19 · 5 min read · When designing a passwordless-first PWA architecture, the diagram looks elegant. In production, elegance collides with: Browser inconsistencies Institutional identity constraints Support tickets Device lifecycle chaos Monitoring blind spots Le...
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Feb 19 · 5 min read · When teams adopt WebAuthn or FIDO2, the excitement is understandable: No passwords. No phishing. No credential stuffing. Biometric UX. Public-key cryptography. It feels like the final answer. But WebAuthn answers exactly one question: Can thi...
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Feb 18 · 6 min read · WebAuthn gave us phishing-resistant, device-bound authentication.But devices get lost. Browsers reset. Users switch laptops. Institutions manage identities centrally. That’s where OIDC (Feide) enters — not as a competitor to passwordless, but as stru...
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Feb 17 · 7 min read · WebAuthn looks deceptively simple at a high level: Generate challenge Call browser API Verify signature Done In practice, it is not that simple. WebAuthn is cryptographically elegant but operationally unforgiving.Small mistakes create subtle se...
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Feb 16 · 6 min read · Modern authentication diagrams are clean. Real systems are not. My architecture intentionally combines: WebAuthn (FIDO2) for phishing-resistant authentication Feide (OIDC) for federated identity, recovery, and bootstrap SQL Server for credential p...
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Feb 10 · 6 min read · If you read the WebAuthn specification end to end, you’ll come away with two thoughts: This is extremely well designed. No human should be expected to learn it this way. WebAuthn didn’t appear to make logins prettier. It exists because the web ne...
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Feb 8 · 6 min read · “Passwordless” has become one of those terms that everyone uses and few people define. Depending on who you ask, it can mean: logging in with Face ID, receiving a magic link by email, approving a push notification, using a security key, or never...
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Feb 7 · 6 min read · Modern web applications are full of login screens — but surprisingly few of them have a well-designed authentication system. This distinction matters more than it sounds.If you treat authentication as a UI feature instead of a security system, every ...
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Feb 3 · 15 min read · From Stochastic Identity to Deterministic Intent: A Zero-Trust Architecture for Hostile Environments In December 2020, the SolarWinds Sunburst attack exposed a catastrophic flaw in how we think about CI/CD security. The attackers (APT29) didn't brea...
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