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This is not true, Passkeys is the marketing term for Webauthn with resident keys.
by crote 4y ago
This is not true, Passkeys is the marketing term for Webauthn with resident keys.
- sebk 4y agoIt's surprisingly difficult to figure what what a passkey is, precisely. I think there's a bit of a terminology issue. FIDO marketing materials talk about passkeys in the same way you do, a resident key (now called discoverable credentials). Some other materials say that passkey with no other qualifier is a multi-device passkey, meaning it's backed up by a sync fabric. (e.g. the short version here https://passkeys.dev/docs/reference/terms/#passkey https://passkeys.dev/docs/reference/terms/#passkey). Others, like Google did in their blogpost last week and the long version of that link, say that a passkey is a multi-device passkey that also has user verification (so it can be used for passwordless and not just 2FA/2SV).