Uhhh... Can someone ELI18 to me the problem with passkeys? I use them wherever available and find them very convenient.
Yeah i can sum it up for you
Has this energy...
You can store passkeys in your password manager lol
Passkeys are one exception to the familiar pattern of "we give you more SeCuRiTY so we can spy on you more and control your behaviour better". They actually are more secure. Problem is, a lot of technical issues with it still, a ton of stuff not working correctly yet
I'm still appalled that my Yubikey / FIDO2 still doesnt work on Firefox. I have it as a passkey for GitHub, realized it doesnt work on Firefox, so they just prompt me for my password. That seems backwards to have password as a fallback, too.
Remember when tap-to-pay was new and didn't work at a lot of places and some people were freaked out over it?
And now most of us use it without a 2nd thought.
I speculate passkeys will be like that.
I'd use it if it didn't cost extra in my country. Swiping my card really isn't much harder
Interesting, I didn't know it costs extra in some places. TIL.
Wow that's madness
On the contrary i want more services using passkeys instead of 2fa methods that are less secure (sms).
sure, you can use a passkey as a primary authentication, but only "a device" or "system"(keypass/1pass etc) knows the passkey detail. with only passkey, if my passkey provider/ device is compromised then everything is lost. having single factor auth seems like a bad idea.
a password is something that I can know, so is still useful as a protection mechanism. having two factor auth should include password and passkey, which seems entirely reasonable whilst also providing an easier path forward for people used to TOTP.
ITT: people who think only SMS, email and TOTP exist as 2FA.
And people who think only your phone can be used as passkey.
Unless I've missed something big, passkeys are pretty easy for me if the website supports them imo.
Using KeePassXC, I click register on the website, register the passkey with KeePass, then it just works when I need to authenticate or login. My database is then synced across all my devices.
Passkey support is yet to come to KeePassDX on Android though, so I'll be awaiting that feature
Passkeys are a great idea, but everyone involved seems like they want the process to be as much of a pain in the dick as possible. So until the industry pulls it's collective head out of its collective ass (not going to hold my breath on that one), it'll be passwords+2FA for me.
Jesus Christ, dude, that is exactly it.
We're trying to implement passkeys at work and the testing has been an absolute nightmare. Literally have no control over the onboarding experience because each tech giant is clamoring over each other, interjecting into the process to be the "home" for your passkeys. It's bananas.
When it's all set up, it's kinda great! But getting set up in the first place is an exercise in frustration.
It's a chance for them to lock you (normies) into their platform forever. They're not going to give that up.
I hate 2fa so much, I never thought they would come up with anything more irritating. Little did I know.
I really like 2FA as long as it's TOTP and I can use an offline app or program for it. It just works and is very easy and secure.
Yeah it should be "Password+TOTP"
There's been a lot of pain in the attempt to portray it as "Just click the passkey button, and that's it! Your login is secured for life!"
No - Buddy. It is secured for this one specific device that I have biometric authentication for. What about my computer? What about my other computer that isn't on the same operating system? I have a password manager that stores these things, why didn't you save to that when I registered? Why is it trying to take this shit from my Apple Keychain when it's in Bitwarden?
And, the next ultra-big step: How would a non-techie figure this shit out?
And, the next ultra-big step: How would a non-techie figure this shit out?
They don't have a computer, another computer with a different OS, or bitwarden.
The amount of people in this thread that don't understand passkeys surprises me. This is Lemmy. Aren't we the technical Linux nerds of the Internet?
I'll use banks as an example
If they cared about your security there would not be a mobile app or website.
Hell, credit cards would still require a signature.
It's about cost first and foremost and then convenience.
Has nothing about you as a consumer. They don't give 2 shits about you as a consumer.
I mean you're right about banks but your examples make no sense.
Banks generally don't support 2fa, which is bad. Some banks (fidelity) still have character limits on passwords because they stores it in plaintext until recently so you could use it through the telephone system. They could implement a secure tap to pay system on your phones with enhanced security, rather than relying on Google to handle their job. And for credit cards themselves, switch to chip and pin.
"Banks don't have mobile apps"?? "Signatures are secure"?????🤡
How easy is it to fake a signature for a normal person who has not practiced a person's signature for the intent purpose of faking it? Have you ever tried faking your parents signature to get out of school? I have.
Now the infrastructure required to adequately check signatures is not practical hence it doesn't exist. It's why we moved to pins. Pins are small and 2fa doesn't exist for banks because again it's about the bare minimum and they are out to make money and don't care about customers plus there's government safeguards in place specific to banking.
I will continue to argue that going back in time signatures are infinitely more secure than a 4 digit pin let alone tap but we have traded security for convenience.
Anyways full admit that I'm batshit crazy.
Have you ever tried faking your parents signature to get out of school? I have
Yeah. I've been able to do it since I was 10. It's really easy. I can also fake my husband's and siblings'. It's also a pain in the ass to change your signature. So if someone learns to copy it (like say based on the signature that was literally required to be on the card), it's much hard to change it compared to a pin (which should definitely not be written on the card).
Do you think signatures were at all secure? If they cared about security they'd do chip+pin like most civilized countries.
With proper infrastructure yes signatures are extremely secure. But that proper infrastructure doesn't exist.
I struggle to think of what that extremely secure infrastructure would look like. Are you imagining signing on an electric terminal and having a computer compare signatures at the time of sale? That seems like the most secure and still wildly insecure compared to a pin.
Passkey is "something you own" right?
I have something I own, it's a Yubikey
And how many sites support Yubikeys/Security Keys? Not many. I doubt we'll see more either now with Passkeys becoming more prominent.
I have two Yubikeys and other than securing my password manager vault they are rarely used elsewhere.
Passkeys are light years ahead of 2fA in user experience. Why do you dislike them?
Security based on devices is one of the positive innovations of smartphones and perhaps the only area where they've improved over the desktop experience.
I very specifically don't want my security tied to my device. Trying to migrate to new phones, and keeping things synced between a phone, desktop, and laptop is why I long ago moved to a password manager. Now, especially in the phone space, getting passkeys to function fully with a password manager ranges from "pain in the ass" to "not actually possible".
I had a botched phone battery replacement once resulting in the phone getting replaced very unexpectedly. It was a nightmare trying to get everything back together because I stupidly used google authenticator, which is tied to the specific phone it’s on. Not tying it to the device is the way to go.
I use passkeys through 1Password and it’s vastly less irritating to me than anything involving passwords, especially 2fa. I really don’t like having to wait for email to arrive or copying down digits from a text message, which seems to be how 2fa typically works 90% of the time.
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