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Re:Passkeys: A Shattered Dream by dwattttt on Friday April 26, 2024 @07:31AM (#40168078)
You should produce a key per device, and produce a backup key that is safely stored & not used anywhere.

You can recover if you lose all devices via your break-glass backup key, and you limit the blast radius of "my key got stolen" from rotating all your keys to just a single device (or maybe the more likely "I screwed up and pushed my key somewhere public")

Re:Passkeys: A Shattered Dream by crote on Friday April 26, 2024 @07:58AM (#40168266)
... which is completely nonviable if you connect to more than a single service.

I agree that you should use a different key per device, but when you connect to over a dozen different services/machines it quickly starts to become a serious chore to add another key. Have fun spending an hour enrolling your new device - provided you can even remember every single usage it should be enrolled with.

Re:Passkeys: A Shattered Dream by 4ad on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:06AM (#40168351)
SSH certificates solve this issue.

AFAIK there is no equivalent for Passkeys.

Re:Passkeys: A Shattered Dream by crote on Friday April 26, 2024 @02:35PM (#40172663)
Unfortunately SSH certificates have really poor uptake in practice, and it's essentially unheard of to have a personal CA instead of a per-company CA.

But yes, having a single long-living "primary key" everyone can trust which you'd use to generate short-living per-device "secondary keys" would indeed be the ideal solution.