Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password
by Ajedi32 on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @03:39PM
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You seem to be under the false impression that passkey databases are stored completely unencrypted and unprotected on disk or in the cloud. Obviously those details are implementation-dependent, but I don't know of any passkey implementation that works that way.
Let's take Apple's implementation as an example (since that was the one I could most easily find information on). Their implementation stores passkeys in the iCloud keychain[1], which is end-to-end encrypted[2].
Let's take Apple's implementation as an example (since that was the one I could most easily find information on). Their implementation stores passkeys in the iCloud keychain[1], which is end-to-end encrypted[2].
[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/sign-in-with-passkeys...
[2]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-keychain-syn...