• skillful_garbage@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Passkeys are asymmetric, meaning that the server only ever sees your public key. If the server gets breached, then only your public key is leaked, which isn’t a big deal. Functionally, it’s almost identical to SSH keys.

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      1 year ago

      Since you should use a password manager anyways, it wouldn’t make a difference if they get a randomised password or public key.

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        1 year ago

        If they get your password they can impersonate you to the server. They can’t do that with just the public key part of your passkey.

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          1 year ago

          That’s true.

          Ideally my password should be hashed and salted anyways, so that shouldn’t make a huge difference.