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Passkeys are not a trap. Use them! (hachyderm.io)

submitted 5 days ago by libewa@feddit.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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A rebuttal to an anti-passkey, pro-TOTP post that has made the rounds on Lemmy as well.

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[–] swicano@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

I do consider the master password to my password manager as my "thing I know", and not the randomly generated passwords it stores. But you're saying that have-vs-know is not really important in the security space, that was mostly just a handy shorthand?

so are passkeys just a simplified workflow version of the complicated dance I have to do on windows to get git commits to push easily with the public key from putty-gen? But also the private key is sometimes locked to the device it was generated on? I guess I should read some actual technical docs on em.