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Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use passkeys. You’re telling me it’s just a thing... that lives on my phone? What if I lose my phone? What if you steal my phone?

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[-] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I personally will only use hardware solutions for passkeys -- YubiKeys and TPM-backed WHFB creds.

But the other reply makes a very good point about adoption being more important than perfection since, even with software-backed passkeys, you still have the benefit of the secret never leaving the client.

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