Re:Google Rolling Out Passkey Passwordless Login Support to ...
by andrewxdiamond on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:01PM
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They can do this with SSO provided by third parties now.
Re:Google Rolling Out Passkey Passwordless Login Support to ...
by Mindless2112 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:07PM
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Sure, but passkeys are meant to replace passwords, not SSO (although I won't complain if they do replace SSO).
Most services probably would not restrict you to just one model of authenticator, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to see a service require that the authenticator be backed by a secure element, in which case you could use a security key, a passkey, a TPM, et cetera, but not a password manager. I'd still take that over passwords, but I don't think everyone would.
Re:Google Rolling Out Passkey Passwordless Login Support to ...
by martin_k on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:56PM
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> Unless the service you are trying to use requires that you use a particular model of authenticator, which the service provider can enforce via attestation.
Android's implementation of passkeys currently does not support attestation. https://groups.google.com/a/fidoalliance.org/g/fido-dev/c/nh...
Neither does Apple's, I believe.
Re:Google Rolling Out Passkey Passwordless Login Support to ...
by Mindless2112 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:47AM
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Good to know! Hopefully this kills off unnecessary use of attestation.
Re:Google Rolling Out Passkey Passwordless Login Support to ...
by minimaxir on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:00PM
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I recently got hardware TOTP keys and I wanted to use them with my financial accounts but all the banks have their own propritary authenticators :(
Re:Google Rolling Out Passkey Passwordless Login Support to ...
by oezi on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:19AM
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Isn't it even worse? Browser vendors don't even offer any way to not use their baked-in authenticator? With WebAuthn they offered at least the options of using a security key via Bluetooth/NFC/Bluetooth as alternatives to the device authenticator. I don't see that option with passkeys.
So, there seems no way to use a password manager with passkeys.
Unless the service you are trying to use requires that you use a particular model of authenticator, which the service provider can enforce via attestation.