• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    That’s literally just a long password that you can never recover your data from when you inevitably lose or forget it (remember we’re talking about the majority of users here who do not use password managers).

    • jdeath@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      there’s literally zero technical reason that a user couldn’t reset a private key the same as a password. after all, you just pointed out they are almost the same.

      edit: if you’d like to see an example create SSH keys for your GitHub account and then reset them