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Podcast: Web3 Galaxy Brain 🌌ðŸ§
Episode: EIP-7212 with UlaÅŸ ErdoÄŸan, Jerome de Tychey, and Lionello Lunesu
Description: Today's episode is all about EIP-7212.
To understand EIP-7212, first we need to talk about Passkeys.
Passkeys are a new authentication standard designed to replace passwords.
With passkeys, when you sign into an app or website, a passkey is generated on your device, and saved either locally, to a passkey manager, or to a hardware device like a Yubikey. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are adopting passkeys because they are more secure than the traditional username and password scheme.
Passkeys use the secp256r1 elliptic curve, or R1 for short. Bitcoin a...