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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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[–] l_b_i@pawb.social 28 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I think they are being pushed because cool technology on paper. Whenever I read an article about them, I can't help but think about the human factors. How are passkeys created, often by a password or email. okay... that looks a lot like a password. Oh you lost the passkey, here lets send you one again. It stinks of a second factor without a first. Sure, the passkey itself is hard to compromise, but how about its creation. If your email is compromised I see no difference from passwords or passkeys.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 months ago (7 children)

They don’t email you a passkey, what are you even talking about?

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

There are quite a few uninformed takes here & the number of upvotes they got for it is stunning. Lemmy. 😞

[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Lemmy has been very anti passkey at least since it's rise in 2023, it's very interesting how tech forward Lemmy generally is and how anti passkey and not even anti, just generally uninformed on them they are.

I for one love them. I always read everyones opinions here and just think nobody has even attempted to use them. It's very simple.

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