alt Hacker NewsPasskeys are just SSH keys in how they work. We've been doing this since the 90's. The only people that use SSH keys are the Linux savvy users and those who are forced to via an enterprise solution for vaulting.
The average person doesn't know anything about this stuff nor do they care. I also have yet to see a Passkey solution that didn't also have a password on it and a nice little box letting people choose to use the password instead of the passkey. They just added a new layer on top of all the old ones and created confusion. Now people use password and passkey interchangably in conversations and no one knows what they are talking about.
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this is false equivalency. in poland we have similar to passkey implementation in government issued application - mobywatel [0] that allows to login to government websites. in 2022 according to published data it had almost 9m installations [1] and a lot of them are old ppl, so its not like only neckbeards would know this ancient technology
sure there are some issues sometimes (outages and others), but most of the time they work like charm and solve a lot of issues with login+password issues.
- [0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.nask.mobywa...
- [1] https://dane.gov.pl/en/dataset/2919/resource/43845,mobywatel...
I would feel a lot better using SSH keys rather than passkeys. At least those are understandable.
I can find my ssh keys in `~/.ssh`. No such place exists for passkeys.