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Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 157 points 9 months ago (36 children)

Until someone can explain to me how I can transfer, manage and control my passkeys without syncing them to some hostile corporation's cloud infrastructure, passkeys will remain a super hard sell for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Browsers can save them and extensions like, KeepassXC, can behave like a passkey provider

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That's something, but isn't half the benefit meant to be storing them in the TPM? Also, that won't help if you're logging into a game or app, surely? Would love to be wrong on that, of course.