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frederick
@sgniwder
please explain to me, like i'm 5, why so many sites have moved to single authentication using just an email? no passwords just the email... seems like a step backwards in so many ways...
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adrienne
@adrienne
Are you referring to the login pattern when a site asks you to enter your email and they email you a link which logs you in? I imagine it’s because they believe (rightly so in most cases) that your email provider is much more secure than what they can manage. Most people heavily protect their email, with strong password and 2 factor authentication. Sites can rely on your secure email and not have to worry about encrypting your password and providing additional layers of authentication.
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Thomas Mattimore
@mattimost.eth
It’s safer and easier to implement
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Should I Pseudonym?
@fong888.eth
It's not great UX, but it seems more secure short-term. Increasingly in favor of a QR code scanned by the user's phone or just a hard-key for 2FA
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Apurv
@apurvkaushal
think passkeys based authentication are the end game solution to all of this, wdyt?
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Perpetual Protocol
@perpprotocol
They *should* offer the option to login with password but they probably observed most users - used weak passwords and/or - forgot the password often and had to receive the email anyway Passkeys, which are a slightly more secure, faster version of the link-in-email login method, will hopefully be the replacement.
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BTjVdci
@nnpmtmlqnq
yes, that is what I am referring to!nnthe issue with this method is that if your email gets compromised, now you could have many other accounts that are compromised.nnit becomes a single point of failure if no other authentication is required…
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