Passkeys rely heavily on at least one device remaining authenticated. You have to remember, the average user of a given web service does not have an ISP, they literally only have their phone and maaaaybe a decade old laptop that they haven’t turned on or charged since ordering plane tickets pre-pandemic. It is critical that any solution replacing passwords has to work for this average user who literally only has their current phone and trades in their phone every 1-4 years for another one, therefore they do not have a second authenticated device to verify when they get a new phone or their phone breaks and they buy a new one at the carrier store.
I’m happy to be proven wrong, but from my understanding of how passkeys are implemented, they will either lead to account lockout or rely on less secure authentication methods if the only authenticated device becomes inaccessible/inoperable
Passkeys are an implementation of a public-key cryptography. The service has the public key, you have the private key. The sites don’t give you anything, you give them the public-key which is generated using your private key. https://www.passkeys.com/ explains a lot of it.
Passkeys rely heavily on at least one device remaining authenticated. You have to remember, the average user of a given web service does not have an ISP, they literally only have their phone and maaaaybe a decade old laptop that they haven’t turned on or charged since ordering plane tickets pre-pandemic. It is critical that any solution replacing passwords has to work for this average user who literally only has their current phone and trades in their phone every 1-4 years for another one, therefore they do not have a second authenticated device to verify when they get a new phone or their phone breaks and they buy a new one at the carrier store.
I’m happy to be proven wrong, but from my understanding of how passkeys are implemented, they will either lead to account lockout or rely on less secure authentication methods if the only authenticated device becomes inaccessible/inoperable
If you use a password manager it’s literally no different than passwords. I can use my passkeys on any device through 1Password.
Okay so if the sites actually give you the passkey to manage that’s not as bad as what I remember reading about when passkeys were first announced
Passkeys are an implementation of a public-key cryptography. The service has the public key, you have the private key. The sites don’t give you anything, you give them the public-key which is generated using your private key. https://www.passkeys.com/ explains a lot of it.