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

submitted 7 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 7 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] 26 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I currently use Syncthing to keep my Keepass database updated on my phone, laptop, and home server. Any change anywhere is instantly sent directly to the other 2 devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you use SyncThing along with Nextcloud? I currently use Nextcloud to store my data, but the one part where it still lags a bit behind is on Android specifically (you need to manually sync certain changes).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I don't know anything about Nextcloud. Syncthing is open source, and there are a couple of Android apps. I use Syncthing Fork and don't have any problems.

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