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> an adversary in possession of a read-only copy of the database of the service you're trying to authenticate with

True, but GP is referring to the private key on the (user’s) device or computer being stored in a password manager. The main protection that passkeys offer in such a case is that there’s no case of passkey reuse across services and accounts, which is something that’s possible with passwords even if one used a password manager (albeit poorly by not generating unique passwords for each account).



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