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Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Tibert@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Both the website and your physical security token must support the right type of webauthn credentials (the token has storage for a certain number of slots with "discoverable credentials").

Passkeys is a variant of the same which is bound to your device's own TPM / SE security chip or equivalent, plus a synchronization feature for backups.