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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • All the messaging about fast charging speed is focused on the wrong thing. EV drivers should be able to do the vast majority of their charging at home or at their destination. The messaging should be about getting chargers in more homes, apartment complexes and workplaces. Speed doesn’t matter as much if you’re going to be parked for half the day or overnight.

    Fast charging stations should only be necessary for road trips, where you should be taking a break every so often anyways.









  • In the scheme I’m proposing, the password never gets sent to the server.

    The issue of password reuse is the password getting sent to the site, because the prevailing approach is to hash the password server-side. Passwords leak because they get stored in plaintext, or hashed using outdated algorithms, or get logged with request metadata–bottom line, they end up stored somewhere that an attacker can get their grubby little paws on them, or in a way they can reasonably recover them.

    Using a master password to derive a passkey client-side isn’t any different than using a master password to unlock a password manager. It just cuts out the middle step.


  • I feel like there’s some potential in password-derived passkeys, which would get around the storage and hardware lock-in issues. It’d essentially be a master password like for BitWarden, but instead of needing an app to store a bunch of generated passwords, the master password could be all you need to authenticate.

    Most of the sources of compromise for regular users would be eliminated because the password never leaves the client.