Why “Passkey” is being discussed
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I use my Yubikey as a passkey on all the sites that support a passkey...
by palata · Oct 12, 2026
That is a hopelessly unusable workflow which is why the default behavior on iOS is storing Passkeys in iCloud Passwords and having cloud sync between devices and cloud backup&#x…
by WorldMaker · Oct 12, 2026
> It's just a fight between my password manager, my browser and my OS which all try to be "first" to intercept the passkey request, and if the "wrong one" gets it there's no way…
by donmcronald · Oct 12, 2026
Bluetooth is very hard to use. This just isn't about hardware support, it's about "how long does it actually take the average person to do a Bluetooth-mediated workflow, how con…
by lukeschlather · Oct 12, 2026
>Passkeys work and make my life better. Not the concern, it's whether it's worth the time and energy to expand passkeys as the default and getting normies using them. Some peopl…
by 9x39 · Oct 12, 2026
To fill out a bit more of the story, they also stopped supporting consumer attestation after arriving at a "good enough" compromise that they felt was more privacy supporting an…
by WorldMaker · Oct 12, 2026
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Passkey, also known as security key, is a pair of cryptographic keys that is generated by a user's authenticator linked to an account to authenticate a user's identity against a remote application or system by using public-key cryptography, thus avoiding the need to reveal the secret key held by the user through public channels. The current popular implementation of passkeys for general public usage in web technologies is proposed by FIDO Alliance and standardised by the World Wide Web Consortium under the WebAuthn standard, and passkeys is generally referred as a de-facto non-technical term of WebAuthn credential. Read more on Wikipedia