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Vaultic: WebAuthn Authentication for Laravel The Death of Passwords is Here ** Passwords are dead.** We all know it. You know it. Your users know it. Yet here we are in 2026, still storing password hashes like it's 2016. The future is passwordless. And it's not coming—it's already here. But implementing WebAuthn (FIDO2) is a nightmare: challenges, assertions, public-key cryptography,