A new login technique is becoming available in 2023: the passkey. The passkey promises to solve phishing and prevent password reuse. But lots of smart and security-oriented folks are confused about what exactly a passkey is. There’s a good reason for that. A passkey is in some sense one of two (or three) different things, depending on how it’s stored.
  • lud@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    Since you should use a password manager anyways, it wouldn’t make a difference if they get a randomised password or public key.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      If they get your password they can impersonate you to the server. They can’t do that with just the public key part of your passkey.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        23·
        1 year ago

        That’s true.

        Ideally my password should be hashed and salted anyways, so that shouldn’t make a huge difference.