The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over - eviltoast

“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.

  • devfuuu@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    And we all remember the huge drama about it because they allowed for taking the keys out and backup them up.

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      2 months ago

      I think a big part of it was exporting them plain text by default. I’m in the “I know what I’m doing” camp but I guess for someone who doesn’t that sort of handholdy stuff not allowing the export them without encryption stuff makes sense.