Hacker News with Generative AI: Passkeys

Passkey marketing is lying to you (it's actually really simple) (smokingonabike.com)
Two years ago, Ars Technica published an article about how Passkeys are finally here and provide a better experience than passwords.

Passkeys, Security, Marketing, Technology

26 points by coldpie 14 days ago | 24 comments

Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security (arstechnica.com)
It's that time again, when families and friends gather and implore the more technically inclined among them to troubleshoot problems they're having behind the device screens all around them. One of the most vexing and most common problems is logging into accounts in a way that's both secure and reliable.

Security, Technology, Passkeys, User Experience

377 points by Flimm 19 days ago | 361 comments

Passkeys are primarily about vendor lock-in (ycombinator.com)
With Microsoft's latest admission that they're FORCING everybody to use passkeys, it really gives one a moment of pause to reflect.

Security, Passkeys, Microsoft, Vendor Lock-in

20 points by srevenant 29 days ago | 12 comments

Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push (theregister.com)
Microsoft last week lauded the success of its efforts to convince customers to use passkeys instead of passwords, without actually quantifying that success.

Microsoft, Passkeys, Security, Passwords

7 points by ajdude 30 days ago | 1 comments

Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push (theregister.com)
Microsoft last week lauded the success of its efforts to convince customers to use passkeys instead of passwords, without actually quantifying that success.

Microsoft, Passkeys, Security, Technology, Cybersecurity

4 points by rntn 31 days ago | 2 comments

Amazon says 175M customer now use passkeys to log in (bleepingcomputer.com)
Amazon has seen massive adoption of passkeys since the company quietly rolled them out a year ago, announcing today that over 175 million customers use the security feature.

Amazon, Passkeys, Security, Cybersecurity

11 points by rntn 94 days ago | 14 comments

FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers (fidoalliance.org)
The FIDO Alliance has published a working draft of a new set of specifications for secure credential exchange that, when standardized and implemented by credential providers, will enable users to securely move passkeys and all other credentials across providers.

Security, Passkeys, Standards, Technology, Web Authentication

225 points by Terretta 95 days ago | 274 comments

Introducing passkey support to Fastmail (fastmail.com)

Email, Security, Passkeys

82 points by archb 157 days ago | 115 comments

Safari 18 can automatically transition users to passkeys [video] (apple.com)

Safari, Passkeys, Security, Technology, Web Browsers

42 points by stpn 220 days ago | 63 comments

Show HN: OSS Auth0 Alternative Ory Kratos Now with Full PassKey Support (github.com/ory)