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Passkey is still too confusing to use

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=461846
15•ilamont•2h ago

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ggm•2h ago
I think I have to agree. I spend my life across 2 macbook and 2 android devices and I now cannot predict which web interaction (or WPA) will ask me to use which device(s) to validate which association.

I have bitwarden on all of them. I can coordinate 2FA TOTP easily. I don't see passkey adding value right now, it's simply added an extra model, alongside the others, which doesn't even reliably work.

Given their non-migrating quality, I can't federate can I?

mmiyer•24m ago
FWIW Bitwarden supports passkeys which allows you have them synced across all your devices.
al_borland•2h ago
It also feels like many sites are trying to either trick or gaslight me into moving over to a passkey. Amazon was successful in tricking me, and I’ve had to be much more vigilant since that happened.
Detrytus•1h ago
Call me old fashioned but I distrust any form of authentication that is tied to a specific device.

I might be getting older but my memory is still good enough to remember a couple of secure passwords (secure, as in: 20+ chars long random strings), one of them being a password to my KeePass database, and the other to the email account where I keep a backup copy of it.

I would hate to be locked out of my accounts only because I lost my phone or Yubikey.

wmf•20m ago
Most passkeys are synced to multiple devices.
pabs3•1h ago
Passkeys are also incompatible with Free Software:

https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/01/04/passkey-marketing-...

misterspaceman•8m ago
I'm not a security expert, but I have an opinion on passkeys: I think we should stick to using them only for 2FA. At least for any site where the security really matters.

In my mind, a passkey authenticates the device, while the password authenticates you, the user. Passkeys let us limit which devices are allowed to connect with our credentials. A hacker in Eastern Europe could steal my login, but if their laptop isn't authorized, it makes an account takeover much harder.

(Side note: This is also why I'm uncomfortable putting TOTP codes and passkeys in the same password manager as the regular login credentials. It effectively defeats the whole purpose, turning multi-factor authentication back into single-factor again.)

commandersaki•5m ago
Criminals love getting persistent access to accounts using Passkeys because there's a large populous that do not understand what a Passkey is or does or review if they have any, and even if they have an unauthorised one created, do not do anything about it.

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