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Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords (sentientrant.com)
submitted 5 days 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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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

You can? At least I do that. I host vaultwarden myself and store the passkeys there.

Passkeys to me are just a better way to autofill in login data.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

OK, now think how nontechnical people will not be able to do it. They will be tied to Google/X-corp for all credentials, even government ones. Waiting to be banned if their social credit is too low.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 5 days ago

That's the root of the problem. Nontechnical people don't use good passwords, but all the ideas we have for replacing them are only usable by more technically minded people.

There are a variety of other reasons why passwords are bad, though.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 days ago

OK, now think how nontechnical people will not be able to do it.

Nontechnical people can use BitWarden/Keeper/Proton Authenticator/any other major system like that instead of self-hosting.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

True. But I would say that this isn't an issue intrinsic with passkey. Many people don't have time/energy or the attitude to think critically about technology and are herded towards Google/X-corp/etc with offers of convenience and because they are often the only offered choice on the web sites. But from the POV of passkey they just act as a password manager.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 7 points 5 days ago

Oh I'm stoopit. I just looked up the documentation for keepassxc and it supports it too:

https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_passkeys

So I guess the next time I create an account that supports it I'll try it and see how it goes.