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> Clever use of WebAuthn’s PRF to reuse synced passkeys for file encryption

Agreed on the clever part, but arguably that's exactly what PRF was designed for :)

> The catch is credential revocation: leaked passkeys mean full rotation and bulk re-encryption of files.

That's where the PRF input of key derivation comes in. The idea is to have that input be rotate-able.

That's also why there is two of them: So you can "atomically" (or at least using only one WebAuthN interaction) rotate the derived keys.



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