Passkeys are built on the FIDO2 standard (CTAP2 + WebAuthn standards). They remove the shared secret, stop phishing at the source, and make credential-stuffing useless.

But adoption is still low, and interoperability between Apple, Google, and Microsoft isn’t seamless.

I broke down how passkeys work, their strengths, and what’s still missing

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    That’s what I worried, and then especially to computers that age out of updates (2 older MacBooks).

    We end up having to reauthenticate on some other device at some point anyway and that means there’s still going to be a weak point.

    Like with 2 auth sim jacking.