“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.

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    I think you actually have to buy a passkey device. Then configure it to work with a particular account.

    You plug the passkey into your computer and then whenever it asks for a password you literally touch it and it does its thing. I think there are options like biometrics that you can add on top but you don’t have to have that.

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          What are you talking about? KeepassXC, to my knowledge, is not dependent on any TPM, snd it does support passkeys.

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            1 month ago

            devices themselves can act as passkeys

            I didn’t say a device needs a TPM to support passkeys - I said I believe it it needs one to be a passkey

            Thank you for your passive aggressive response caused by poor reading comprehension, though

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              From what I understand, “passkey” refers to software, so no such thing as “device being a passkey”. Unlike a hardware key.

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                1 month ago

                You understand incorrectly. “passkey” refers to a token used for the public key authentication that is used for sign in, which needs to be stored somewhere - this can be stored in a hardware key like a YubiKey, or in your device’s credentials manager. In principle, this could be anywhere, but it needs to be somewhere secure to not be trivial to compromise (eg taking out your HDD and just copying your passkey off it)

                In Windows’ case, this secure credentials store is the TPM chip, which is why you are not able to use passkeys on Windows devices that have no TPM chip (unless you use another hardware implementation).

                Tldr: passkeys are data, not software, and to store the data, you need some form of hardware, which needs to be secure to not be a really bad idea.

                If you’d like to do some reading before confidently correcting me further, I’d suggest reading about how passkeys work.

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                  1 month ago

                  That is exactly what I said though - passkeys are software. They’re not confined to hardware modules, so there’s no such thing as “device being a passkey”.

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      If that’s what’s needed, I can say with some certainty that adoption isn’t going to be picking up any time this decade.

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        1 month ago

        They’ve been around forever as a concept I think I even have one for accessing some servers at work. You’re right no one uses them.