Why “passkeys” is being discussed
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And now you have to log into your email with a Passkey that probably you lost at the same time you lost your Passkey to the original site (e.g. lost or stolen device). If you ar…
by raron · Sep 19, 2026
I think this is probably one of the reasons people have very different passkey experiences. Hardware passkeys are great and software ones appear to be less great.
by nulltype · Sep 19, 2026
> With passkeys you're just SOL. No more so than if you lose access to the device that's required for Google/Apple MFA prompts, neither of which use SMS and depend on a pro…
by qlte · Sep 19, 2026
> lack of backups if a device is lost/broken That's not accurate. Bitwarden syncs passkeys across all my devices including both mobile/desktop (iOS/Android/M…
by qlte · Sep 19, 2026
KeePassXC supports passkeys
by qlte · Sep 19, 2026
You can add multiple passkeys in the vast majority of websites that support them. There's nothing in the spec that prevents or discourages allowing multiple credentials. I do it…
by qlte · Sep 19, 2026
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