• jdnewmil@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t mean after you logged in… I meant as the default login option to a new Linux box. Passkeys are strong because they are asymmetric, but we currently fall back on symmetric passwords to manage access to those inconveniently-large private keys. How will you reset your Google access if your computer hard disk dies or your phone drops into the ocean if Google will no longer allow passwords? I figure that independence from big brother and fault tolerance to hardware failures would be appropriately-robust if this great new approach could work offline bootstrapping the security of a new computer.

    • Rootiest@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I didn’t mean after you logged in… I meant as the default login option to a new Linux box.

      Ah ok. I misunderstood.

      As to the other bit, Google hasn’t disallowed passwords and I don’t think we’re at a point where they would.

      But I mean ideally you have multiple PassKeys so if you lose one or you computer/phone dies you have a backup.

      I keep a hardware key in a safe that can be used as a backup key to my accounts

      • Bob Robertson IX
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        1 year ago

        I keep a hardware key in a safe that can be used as a backup key to my accounts

        Dude, that’s the first place they’re going to look for it!