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You're comparing a crappy password filter with an optimally implemented passkey thing, though. If the world's up for improving over status quo by rewriting all
by dzaima 3y ago
You're comparing a crappy password filter with an optimally implemented passkey thing, though. If the world's up for improving over status quo by rewriting all login prompts, the comparable options would be making password managers/autofill/autogenerated passwords work well everywhere (which'd be just some light tweaks here and there), or making passkeys work well everywhere (which is an entire new thing, and people would still need to deal with passwords because there's no way that they're disappearing in less than a couple decades).
Passkeys might (or might not) have other benefits, but ease of use is entirely a question of cherry-picking.
- jesseendahl 3y agoI’m not cherry-picking, I’m comparing the actual real-world experience of using password autofill vs. using a passkey. The significantly better passkey sign-in UX that I’m talking about exists on all major platforms. And the UX is handled by browser and operating system APIs, so it’s not really something the app or website can mess up. Also, any solution that still involves password-based login prompts would be worse than passkeys because passwords are still shared secrets, and password hashes would remain juicy targets for attackers in server breaches.