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Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Tibert@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won't work on another device.

Now I don't know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it's really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

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[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  1. Since passkeys are basically asymmetric keys, SSH technically had "passkeys" for years.
[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Yes, but that's missing the important part.

Passkeys is not primarily about asymmetric keys. It's about applying asymmetric keys to the Web as an open standard.

The W3C Web-Authn standard is what makes it important and revolutionary.

This is just as important as HTML, CSS and ActivityPub.

Finally we have an open standard that integrates in the web and offers a high level of security.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago

Just an example of protocol different than HTTP.