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.

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    2 months ago

    If a website with old-school passwords gets hacked, the hacker only gets salted hashes of passwords - this does not seem to be much worse?

    (Websites that store plaintext passwords surely won’t implement passkeys either…)