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Pedro Gomes
@pedrouid.eth
Who is interested in Passkeys support on Ethereum?
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kromo.eth
@chromatic
Conflicted about this, the purist in me says hell no but the realist says that’s probably for the best.
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killjoy.eth
@killjoy
Curious what you see as the downside?
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Pedro Gomes
@pedrouid.eth
He is probably talking about the fact that Passkeys uses a NIST-approved curve Which is something that Satoshi avoided on the suspicion of hidden backdoors But the reality is that Apple and Google only use NIST-approved curves for their secure enclaves Passkeys is needed for Web3 mainstream adoption
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killjoy.eth
@killjoy
Interesting.Whenever I hear curve my brain substitutes it for “math thing”. What could a back door in a curve look like? Is the assertion that its standard approved means that intelligence agencies are comfortable in they could brute force it if they had to?
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Pedro Gomes
@pedrouid.eth
honestly I've had this question before and I always link the same answer to it https://security.stackexchange.com/a/256108
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killjoy.eth
@killjoy
Super interesting. So basically the concern is that in the past the NSA influenced NIST to use a curve that was generated with a secret value known to them, which let them predict outputs. Given that history any curve recommended by NIST is now suspect. I guess a KZG setup would mitigate this?
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