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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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[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

How Google can do to allow you to connect to another device if the first one is lost, not sure. But it would certainly either ask for a password and a 2fa method.

That's the key question. From what it seems, it would replace a password manager with different passwords for each website, but you give Google control of the master password.

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

It is not for the password manager...

It's just to connect to the google account.

It is not a service to connect to other ones without passwords.

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