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> What's your ideal authentication solution?

Client side TLS certificates used in combination with username/password. Had browser vendors improved the UX experience in generating CSRs and storing certificates, then it could have been a viable option. The nice thing about this is that it's application level protocol agnostic. It could even be used for SMTP and IMAP connections instead of just being limited to HTTP like webauthn.



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