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Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords (sentientrant.com)
submitted 9 months ago by sentientRant@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 67 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Better title:

Passkeys: still trying to explain why it's worth the hassle when it isn't

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There’s a hassle?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Every time I was prompted to use one by plugging my phone in to my computer nothing happened. That was a little over a year ago.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's been a very seamless experience with Bitwarden. Pretty much "click passkey, now logged in".

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean when I was trying to set one up. I wasn't ever prompted to use a password manager. It just said to plug my phone into my computer. I did. And it didn't detect anything. With user experience in setup that poor I don't trust them yet.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

I haven't even bothered into understanding what passkeys are (I know, I should check it out thoroughly) but I think that at its core it requires your phone, and as I like messing around with my hardware installing custom roms and rooting I suppose this method will be pursued by Google so, just as NFC payments, I don't give a single fuck about it 🤣

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

A better, well defined API for password managers to insert login information to the site compared to text boxes.