Re: OT: Passkey usage
Tim via users <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2026-08-13 at 21:26 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > That's not a passkey. That's just a password generated by them. Fair enough... the term gets bandied about because it's mash of characters. If they try to get the general public to install certificates, etc., then technical support is in for a world of pain. It can be hard enough to do with technical people (quirks their server system inflicts upon the users, certificates the user software is prepared to handle). > I'm curious how they determine that the connection is coming from a > certain app. Finger printing the various hello sequences, for one thing, and probably a bunch of port probes for other Windows leaks. When I joined our fibre NBN, they asked me to plug a device directly into the NTD, bypassing the router. They couldn't detect the presence of anything from my laptop with Fedora connected to it, they only knew that my DHCP client had asked for an address. It quite surprised them because usually someone plugs a Windows thing in, and they can tell all sorts of things about your OS. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new