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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    3 days ago

    Passkeys are cool but you still need 2fa. Which may as well be a passkey itself.

    One factor is not great even if it’s a passkey.

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      1. Built-In Two-Factor Security – Passkey logins use your private key stored on your device and your face or your fingerprint or your PIN. Unlike password, these cannot be easily replicated by a scammer.
    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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      Passkeys are cool but you still need 2fa.

      How do you use it then if you need to share access in the whole team?

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        You don’t share your personal password across the whole team now, do you? At least for your teams sake I hope you don’t.

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            3 days ago

            I think that’s the problem right there… If you share accounts across multiple people you have far greater problems than how passkeys work…

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              Or they’re using it as intended. I’ve had more than one account I’ve gotten by cost sharing with friends. That’s not a problem, that’s a solution.

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                And it only takes one person with a grudge to cause a problem. I have seen it. I have shared accounts but very carefully and if someone abuses it then they permanently lose access to my stuff even if they are family.

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          share your personal password

          We share a password. Then we don’t call it a personal password anymore. Was that your question?

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          Obviously not the personal password, but sometimes you need to share a password. Think about the password for a remote desktop your team may need to connect to for troubleshooting a problem for example.