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Encryption vs Authentication: The Architecture Guardrails You Need After the Passkeys Critique

· 4 min read
Victor Jimenez
Software Engineer & AI Agent Builder

The passkeys critique surfaced a recurring architecture mistake: teams treat authentication credentials as direct data-encryption keys. That coupling is brittle and creates permanent data-loss risk for normal account lifecycle events (device loss, recovery, provider churn).

This review defines explicit guardrails for security design and architecture approvals.