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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?
2FA is just dead simple. I contact you, you contact me, handshake achieved. If you call me out of the blue I raise the alarm. If you get a login attempt with a failed handshake you raise the alarm.
Putting it all behind a pop up screen just isn't trustworthy to the human brain.
TOTP 2FA is less secure than passkeys. 2FA TOTP keys can be phished. Passkey authentication cannot be phished. This is a security improvement which can make people completely immune to phishing attacks. That's huge. And it doesn't have any privacy risks, no loss of anonymity. It's an open standard.
This is, objectively, a rare example of new technology which will make the world better and safer for us.
Yes, this point exactly, thank you for explaining this.
But I also worry about new areas of weakness with passkeys - anyone accessing the device with the passkey on it, or hacked that device, gets access automatically to the accounts. Also if logins are too fluid I worry that anything out of the ordinary during sign ins won’t be noticed.
yeah that's totally true, but usually modern devices ensure that the passkeys are protected with a PIN or some biometric security, so I think it's at least as strong as having a password manager on your device that can be unlocked with a PIN.
not really sure what you mean about "out of the ordinary" logins - it sounds like you're thinking about phishing risks? but remember - passkeys cannot be phished. they verify the identity of both sides of the authentication token exchange - the server verifies you, and you verify the server. If you only use passkey authentication, you are safe from being phished. the most secure system would be one entirely without passwords/oath totp