Comment on GitHub launches passkey support into general availability

4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Raisin8659@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is a FIDO alliance protocol. This is meant to replace/supplement password, not as 2FA. The sites I use that implement it, Google, Adobe, and Github use it to supplant both the password and 2FA. Cool thing about it is more less: 1) unphishable 2) doesn’t matter if the website’s passphrase data leaks.

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  • BlueBockser@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Webauthn isn’t just for 2FA, it’s for user user authentication through public key cryptography. Passkeys are Webauthn, but the former is a better marketable term.

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