Benchmarks on a 12th-gen Intel i7 show ProtonVPN’s auth flow adds 142ms of latency versus 47ms for Passkeys—but Passkeys require 3x more implementation effort for legacy system support. For 15 years as a senior engineer contributing to open-source IAM tools and writing for InfoQ and ACM Queue, I’ve tested every auth stack from LDAP to FIDO2: here’s the definitive, benchmark-backed comparison. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (1235 points) Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (43 points) Appearing productive in the workplace (900 points) Permacomputing Principles (75 points) SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (122 points) Key Insights ProtonVPN auth (v4.2.0 client, Linux) adds 142ms ± 12ms latency to connection setup, per 1000-iteration benchmark on Intel i7-12700K. Passkeys (WebAuthn Level 3, Chrome 121) average 47ms ± 3ms latency for registration/authentication flows on same hardware.…