Authentication | Rishi Kulkarni | Statistics & Machine Learning

WebAuthn for Dummies Like Me

January 25, 2026 • software engineering, security, authentication, webauthn, cryptography

For a new project at work, we didn’t want to do passwords. The two candidates were magic links and WebAuthn, and we ended up going with magic links—but I got curious about WebAuthn anyway, so I built a demo app to understand it.