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Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords (sentientrant.com)

submitted 5 days 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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[–] kjetil@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dont they all sync to the respective cloud services?
iOS vault -> synced apple cloud Android vault -> synced with Google cloud?
Windows Hello -> synced with Microsoft account?

And if they're not synced, that's even worse. Loose your device and loose your account. Or keep track of which of your 5 devices are have keys for which of your 150 accounts

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Well shit, you're right. I must not have been paying attention when they updated them to include that