Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords

• Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If we cut and run every time a big corporation “embraces” a new standard, just to lessen the pain of the day it’s inevitably “extinguished,“ we’d miss out on quite a lot.

  This standard was open from the start. It was ours. Big corps sprinted ahead with commercial development, as they do, but just because they’re first to implement doesn’t mean we throw in the towel.

  Also:

  1. Bio auth isn’t necessary. It’s just how Google/Apple do things on their phones. It’s not part of the FIDO2 standard.
  2. It works with arbitrary password managers including FLOSS and lots of hardware options.
  3. Passkeys can sync to arbitrary devices, browsers, device bound sessions, whatever.

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• jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the FIDO2 standard works. It is not designed to be vendor specific and as other people in this thread point out, plenty of open-source secrets managers and hardware implement passkeys.

  What we’ve seen is the typical Silicon Valley model of “embrace, extend, extinguish” so you’re right to be wary of any implementation by Google or Microsoft.

  Same goes for biometrics - how you unlock the passkey isn’t specified in the standard. It is left up to the implementation. If you don’t want to use biometrics, you don’t have to.

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• smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You do not need your fingerprint or any other biometric to use a passkey.

  You do not lose access to passkeys when you lose your device.

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