this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2025
277 points (87.5% liked)

Technology

76765 readers
2262 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
277
Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords (sentientrant.com)
submitted 1 day ago by sentientRant@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
220 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Passkeys are built on the FIDO2 standard (CTAP2 + WebAuthn standards). They remove the shared secret, stop phishing at the source, and make credential-stuffing useless.

But adoption is still low, and interoperability between Apple, Google, and Microsoft isn’t seamless.

I broke down how passkeys work, their strengths, and what’s still missing

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm still mad SQRL never got off the ground. It was smartphone based initially, though they quickly made it work in browser. You had a private key that was 'you' and it generated unique user assertion certs per domain, and you completed the login flow by scanning a QR code with the app, which pinged a URL with the user assertion. It was really cool since it had the option of working alongside a password, or you could set it to only work with SQRL logins. No password or anything for the login, just pure math and key material.

But given it put all recovery on the user (if you didn't back up your shit, it's fine if you lose it), I can't say I'm that surprised.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

I don’t understand how this is meaningfully different from passkeys?