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Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password by Veliladon on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @02:04PM (#35805614)
You wouldn't transfer a passkey to your YubiKey. You would enroll it as another device that can be used to login. Like right now on my Google account I have an iCloud passkey and a Windows Hello passkey since iCloud can't sync a passkey to Windows (yet).
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Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password by dotancohen on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @03:28PM (#35806606)
Hypothetical political journalist just lost both his Yubikeys when his office and home were both targeted. He still has an off-site backup of his passkey. How would you envision this working?
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Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password by dwattttt on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:11PM (#35807862)
I'm unfamiliar with the particulars of passkeys, but with hardware tokens I've used before, you'd log in ASAP an unenroll the keys you've lost custody of.
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Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password by cookiengineer on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:08PM (#35807090)
So this is basically the same thing like ssh keys?
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Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password by Veliladon on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:31PM (#35808059)
Exactly. But with some added security.
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