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Re:Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely n... by lxgr on Monday December 30, 2024 @11:23AM (#42550713)
Github lets me name my passkeys. There's a little pencil icon next to each one (on [1]), and as far as I remember it even prompted me for a name when I originally created it.

[1] https://github.com/settings/security

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Re:Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely n... by amluto on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:23PM (#42551344)
Indeed. But it’s on me to manage it. There ought to be a way to tell my computer, once, the name of a token.
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Re:Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely n... by lxgr on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:25PM (#42551362)
There does seem to be some way. I'm relatively sure I've seen keys pre-labeled with the name of my password manager in the past.

Some sites make bad assumptions, though, e.g. labeling every passkey I create as "iCloud Keychain" (because my user agent tells them I'm on macOS, and they assume that it must be that then).

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