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it’s also a big security improvement for all the cases where the third party need that info anyway

Security there (in the cases I am guessing) is determined not by Alice being able to prove that she is Alice, but by Trudy not having secondary ways allowing her to claim that she is Alice.

So, it would be «a big security improvement» only when login were restricted to needing a certificate.

Indeed, but if the majority of users uses the wallet, then business can now afford to do stricter identity verification for the users that don't.

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