Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use passkeys. You’re telling me it’s just a thing… that lives on my phone? What if I lose my phone? What if you steal my phone?

  • Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Until someone can explain to me how I can transfer, manage and control my passkeys without syncing them to some hostile corporation’s cloud infrastructure, passkeys will remain a super hard sell for me.

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      11 months ago

      You can use Bitwarden to store passkeys. Not sure if the self hosted solution has support for it yet though.

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          11 months ago

          Bitwarden does passkeys supposedly. Haven’t tried it myself yet because I don’t know what to make of passkeys.