Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device.

Now I don’t know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it’s really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

  • Swarfega@lemm.ee
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    1 年前

    Yes. Unless there was a way to share that key between devices. I know Bitwarden is working on a vault for keys but it’s not released yet. It was due out now so I assume it’s delayed.

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      Apple is quite dogmatic in that their implementation demands cross device syncing.

      It’s definitely possible to have such an implementation and those will be the most common. You take a very small security risk for a huge convenience factor.

      For the more paranoid, device-bound passkeys do not sync. If you lose the device, you will need to go through a recovery procedure.