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Hey look, a bunch of disjointed, vendor-specific non-standards that become impossible to support. Imagine some hapless Filipino support agent trying to explain to an irate customer their YubiKey drivers are borked.

Why don't we just issue everyone PIV smart cards?




I don't know about the windows side of things, but on Mac I imagine there's just one fingerprint API to support, same with face id. Yubikeys either work or get their drivers from the cloud like most other devices nowadays. I also dont know much about what android has, but I would be suprised to learn if there wasn't native support for the various standards that are in place today, even if manufacturers aren't using it.


> Why don't we just issue everyone PIV smart cards?

Particle Image Velocimetry?

Penis in Vagina?

Pentium 4?

Edit: Hah! Personal Identity Verification!


Non-standards? They all implement the WebAuthN standard.




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