Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts - eviltoast

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.

  • alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s actually quite similar, yes, in the sense that it uses a public/private key pair linked to your account.

    But this works on the application layer and you don’t use certificates.

    Much easier to setup.