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interesting. unfortunately i don't have as much awareness of ECC as i should have, thanks for the information.

Minor correction (I'm assuming it was a typo) -- the secret for the passkey should be the private key. The server stores the user's corresponding public key.

Based on my (limited) understanding from reading the page: 1. Server generates challenge, sends a challenge 2. User device signs the challenge by encrypting with its private key, returns the signature. 3. Server verifies the signature by decrypting with the public key.

As you mentioned, the private key (the only thing that can generate a valid signature) isn't leaked.

I know it's meant to be a joke but I can't help but be a little pedantic: Xi is pronounced more like "see" -- "she" would more like xü

You bought the laptop/PC/television. You request for data from a remote host.

The remote host serves you the content. The remote host is also entitled to serve you ads, since they own their end of the communication.

You view the content. You are also entitled to not view the ad, since you own the device at which you're viewing their content.

We can go back and forth about this. I'll counter with garbage collectors (chiefly men) having to deal with liquid trash, you'll talk about female secretaries having to deal with harassment, I'll talk about emergency frontliners having to deal with the worst of society, and so on.

And we see the similarity here: they're all relatively low-wage jobs.

The comparison here shouldn't be between high-paid jobs (doctor) and low-paid ones (nurse), rather between low-paid jobs and other low-paid jobs.

The bottom line is that those with lower-wage jobs will be the ones having to deal with the worse things, but generally-speaking women tend to take up the less dangerous, more comfortable low-wage jobs. Think teachers, nurses, secretaries against soldiers, police officers, construction workers.