Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password
by danShumway on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:16AM
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I come down really hard on passkeys sometimes, but I'm not opposed to the idea of using keys for authentication. I think that's an amazing idea.
I'm mostly down on the passkey ecosystem and who's in charge of it. I guess I don't do a good job of clarifying that always.
There is a theoretical alternate world where the FIDO Alliance approached this differently where I would be 100% on board with passkeys and would be encouraging everyone to switch to them. I'm just really worried about the implementations I think we're going to actually end up with.
Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password
by JohnFen on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:38AM
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I actually like the passkey idea in the general sense. But what I don't like is the involvement of a third party, and the loss of control over my own critical data.
I'm mostly down on the passkey ecosystem and who's in charge of it. I guess I don't do a good job of clarifying that always.
There is a theoretical alternate world where the FIDO Alliance approached this differently where I would be 100% on board with passkeys and would be encouraging everyone to switch to them. I'm just really worried about the implementations I think we're going to actually end up with.