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How WebAuthn and passkeys work

WebAuthn is a W3C specification and API that enables passwordless logins using passkeys which is a credential based on public key cryptography where the user's device keeps the private key locally to decrypt challenges encrypted with the public key on the authorization server.

Read more about passkeys as a way to strength user credentials here.

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