I love the convenience of not having to create a password everywhere I need to be authenticated. It would be interesting to be able to use lemmy instead of feeding more information to these big corporations.

  • Scrubbles
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    39 months ago

    I’ve seen passkey added to 1password, do you have an eli5ish way of describing that? Is it like ssh keys?

    • Dark Arc
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      79 months ago

      If you’re familiar with SSH keys, it’s basically the same thing but written for everything to use rather than just written for SSH.

      Passkeys can also be managed by TPMs/device hardware to provide private keys that (assuming things are properly designed) can’t be stolen and are bound to the device itself. This isn’t a requirement however, which is why things like 1password, Chrome, etc can sync passkeys.

      They’re basically syncing the one-or-more private keys that back your logins.

      • Scrubbles
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        19 months ago

        Very neat! I’ll have to try them out on a couple sites