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Re:Ask HN: Why is WebAuthn so slow to take off? by JackGreyhat on Sunday April 23, 2023 @05:21PM (#35680751)
Your password cannot leak, because it does not exist. Passkeys can also not be phished.
Re:Ask HN: Why is WebAuthn so slow to take off? by wkat4242 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:39PM (#35682324)
Cannot be phished by currently known methods. Trust me, sooner or later they will find a way. Either through specific implementation issues, workarounds etc. Remember when everyone shrugged off concerns about sms 2fa codes?
Re:Ask HN: Why is WebAuthn so slow to take off? by SgtBastard on Monday April 24, 2023 @10:53PM (#35696036)
The WebAuthN standard (and corresponding browser implementations) do inject browser supplied attestation of the requesting domain, so only a horribly broken implementation would sign a request for mail.google.hackers.ru with the key provisioned for mail.google.com - the user has no input into what the browser supplies, hence its phishing resistance.

That being said, there's no end-to-end verification of the server, so any DNS-poisoning or proxy-MITM-ing of traffic that presents a certificate trusted by the browser will validly present the Passkey implementation a domain that matches a validly provisioned key, allowing session hijacking or the start of oracle attacks on the private key itself.

Also: phishing the recovery passwords to add a new device to the synched keychain is definitely a thing.