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Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap by d3Xt3r on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:48AM (#50099697)
I'm using Edge and Windows 26H2, and logging in via a Microsoft authentication system. There is no QR code.

This is why passkey are a failure, no one knows how they work, and even one someone claims they know, the reality is often different.

Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap by Gigachad on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:03AM (#50101972)
Either you haven’t actually enrolled passkeys on your account or you are just missing it somehow. I’ve not used windows but the UI is extremely obvious on macOS.

If you try to sign in with passkeys but there are none found on the local machine it will ask if you want to use a usb auth or QR code scan.

Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap by d3Xt3r on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:55AM (#50115891)
I so get the prompt to insert a USB key, but I don't know why, when it never gave me an option to create one in the first place (I set mine up in the Microsoft Authenticator app). There is no option to sign-in with a QR code.