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Will a ‘passwordless future’ gain traction though? I keep hearing the term ‘passwordless’ but right now it’s a niche thing with only techie types early adopting
by liberia 4y ago
Will a ‘passwordless future’ gain traction though? I keep hearing the term ‘passwordless’ but right now it’s a niche thing with only techie types early adopting it. I own a Yubikey and use WebAuthn where it’s supported. But only some services support WebAuthn. For this to take off it needs to be ubiquitous and widely supported. Also this article says people won’t be locked out, but if you lose your Yubikey you need some recovery mechanism in place, and not all services support a ‘recovery code’ option meaning you have to contact support, verify your identity with a passport scan and other KYC checks.
- ChadNauseam 4y agoApple Passkey solves most of these issues and will be releasing later this year. 1. It uses your iphone as a security key, which many people already have 2. your private key is synced to your icloud account, so you don’t need to worry about what happens when you lose your phone