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Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use passkeys. You’re telling me it’s just a thing... that lives on my phone? What if I lose my phone? What if you steal my phone?

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[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 158 points 9 months ago (36 children)

Until someone can explain to me how I can transfer, manage and control my passkeys without syncing them to some hostile corporation's cloud infrastructure, passkeys will remain a super hard sell for me.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 26 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I currently use Syncthing to keep my Keepass database updated on my phone, laptop, and home server. Any change anywhere is instantly sent directly to the other 2 devices.

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I do the same but with nextcloud.

[–] fedroxx@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How'd you get nextcloud actually working? I've tried a few times and it was never stable.

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I use the ebuild on Gentoo, combined with some custom nginx config, and a dedicated php-fpm instance just for Nextcloud. Never tried using any of the Docker packages for it so I can't comment on those.

Updates involve merging the new package and running webapp-config to link the files into place, running occ upgrade, and refreshing ownership of the php files. Never had a serious problem with it.

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