Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password

Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password by augusto-moura on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:36PM (#35808115)

I'm not sure if it is passkeys or other mechanism, but I can easily open my bank account on my Android phone just by using biometrics. Instead of typing a pin or password I just do the biometrics and voilá, it opens like magic. That really made me appreciate passwordless apps.

On the other hand, I don't really know how would that work on desktops, should chrome use a Windows service for that? Would it use its own servers? Apple would probably do it themselves. And how about Linux? Would a cross platform option ever exist? Maybe 1password?

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Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password by prmoustache on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:14AM (#35813289)

I guess the idea is they will ask you to grab your smartphone the same way they do it for 2FA. For the end user it will be just like using the 2nd factor of authentication without the primary one (login + password).

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Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password by JohnFen on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:10PM (#35817728)

What do you do if you don't have a smartphone or are unwilling to use it for this?

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