Steve Gibson SQRL Gothenburg Presentation

At OWSAP Gothenburg, Sweden's invitation, Steve describes the inspiration behind and demonstrates the operation of, a fully working public key network authentication system. The FIDO Alliance's "Passkeys" system has been selected as the next industry standard for public key authentication. By comparison to SQRL, the primary feature it lacks, which was SQRL's primary benefit and Steve's original inspiration, is the ability to dynamically synthesize public/private keypairs from any website's domain name. This meant that the user only needed to have a SINGLE "grand master" key and that all other website-specific keys could be generated on-the-fly. But instead we have "Passkeys" which is a working public key system, but it requires every website to have its own unique key, and so we retain the "synchronization problem" that we had before with passwords. SQRL would have eliminated the need for synchronization.