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Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords (sentientrant.com)
submitted 1 month 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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[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 222 points 1 month ago (55 children)

While the lock-in issue is annoying and a good reason not to adopt these, the device failure issue is a tech killer. Especially when I can use a password manager. This means I can remember two passwords (email and password manager), make them secure, and then always recover all my accounts.

Passkeys are a technology that were surpassed 10 years before their introduction and I believe the only reason they are being pushed is because security people think they are cool and tech companies would be delighted to lock you into their system.

[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca -1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I've found a pretty good use for a passkey. Docusign. About every 3 months I need to docusign something at work. The process involves logging in, changing your password, logging in again, opening the document, logging in to sign, logging in to finish. The only steps you get to skip if there's more than one document is the initial log on, and changing password. So with a passkey I just touch it a bunch of times and there's no password change.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

sounds like a better solution is don't use docusign

[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

K, I'll go tell the CEO that they need to come up with something different.

[–] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's like a million other free/libre digital document signing platforms out there. Try one that doesn't suck.

[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, per the comment you replied to, that isnt under my control.

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