Re: OT: Passkey usage

Patrick O'Callaghan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2026-08-17 at 13:08 -0700, Dave Close wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> 
> > As a tangentially related thing - how many people use PGP with
> > email? 
> 
> And if we did, and MUAs made it automatic, banks and all the other
> systems that Balkanize email would not need to do that. Wouldn't it
> be nice to get all your email in the same place, securely?
> 
> By Balkanize, I mean requiring use of a web browser to send or
> receive
> their messages. Doing that means sending or receiving requires
> several
> additional procedural steps, starting a browser and logging in, and
> generally does not provide a user with any local record of the
> exchange.

I don't mind that. What I mind is banks that prevent me using a
password manager (one I use literally blocks the use of copy-and-paste
on their website), and enforce antiquated and nonsensical policies
about password expiry and the kinds of password they allow, which may
have had currency on 1960s mainframes but make no sense nowadays.

poc
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