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The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over (www.wired.com)
submitted 2 months ago by GreenEngineering3475 to c/technology
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“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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When a website gets hacked they only find public keys, which are useless without the private keys.

Private keys stored on a password manager are still more secure, as those services are (hopefully!) designed with security in mind from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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...)