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Passkeys.io – A Passkey Authentication Demo

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Re: Passkeys.io – A Passkey Authentication Demo

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What if your device cannot connect to internet? OTP can work even if device is offline.

The passkey lives on the device you are logging into the service with, so it implies you have internet access there to be able to log into it in the first place.

Re: Passkeys.io – A Passkey Authentication Demo

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> passkeys are way more secure and are easier to use than both passwords and all current 2-factor authentication methods

Perhaps I'm naive, but how are passkeys "way more secure" than "all current 2-factor authentication methods"? Don't many security keys (e.g. Yubikey) also require that you are in possession of the physical yubikey? I'm using that as a 2-factor authentication method. Why is a passkey more secure?

Update: Ah, reading closer it seems that they mean to exclude this yubikey example from "all current 2-factor authentication methods"?

Re: Passkeys.io – A Passkey Authentication Demo

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This completely fails on Linux (doesn't even pop up the dialog for my FIDO2 key), even though WebAuthn on e.g. https://www.pastery.net works fine (and works fine with Passkeys on my Android phone).

Just looking at the table at the bottom of the page, "where can passkeys be used", Ubuntu is the only Linux distro listed, and it does not support Passkeys.
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