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Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Tibert@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won't work on another device.

Now I don't know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it's really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

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[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While I would agree this sounds more secure, I'm always worried about people getting further locked in to Google's products.

Hopefully this system won't take accounts "hostage" by requiring you use Chrome to log in to them, but it's Google, so...

EDIT: I'm wrong, passkeys are stored per-device and can be shared between devices using an open standard. Here's a video explaining the basics. It addresses my concern at around the 2:50 mark.

[-] Tibert@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago

Mot likely it won't need to have chrome. However maybe Google services may be required.

However it is also very likely, if a device cannot support such feature, it will only require a password and 2fa.

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