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> It's not, though. The passkey itself is strictly a single factor.

The passkey alone is not sufficient to log in. You must also provide a successful response to the WebAuthn challenge from an authenticator that has been registered/configured with that passkey.

> That's kinda the point, to reduce user toil.

It's almost as if letting people elect to enter their secure, never-written-down-anywhere-else passphrase would accomplish that.



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