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Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use passkeys. You’re telling me it’s just a thing... that lives on my phone? What if I lose my phone? What if you steal my phone?

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[–] Heavybell 158 points 4 months ago (36 children)

Until someone can explain to me how I can transfer, manage and control my passkeys without syncing them to some hostile corporation's cloud infrastructure, passkeys will remain a super hard sell for me.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (8 children)

You can use Bitwarden to store passkeys. Not sure if the self hosted solution has support for it yet though.

[–] subtext 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

2024.1.2 released with self-hosted server passkey support.

TBH though I would not trust myself to self host my keys to my digital life when the alternative is $40/year for the whole family. You may have a different perspective though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You can just use something like YunoHost, and synchronize weekly encrypted backups via Nextcloud or Syncthing to all of your computers. That way, if your server ends up busted for whatever reason, you can just restore it elsewhere and go back to business

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