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The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over (www.wired.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is the difference between a crypto wallet and a passkey?

Is it just that a passkey has less functionality (and therfore better usability)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Passkeys are for logging into websites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Passkeys seem to be equivalent to public addresses of blockchain wallets.

I think the main difference is that passkey are recoverable but blockchain wallet keys are private

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, and this analogy is completely unhelpful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Can you expand on why?

One argument could be that FIDO2 and WebAuthn primarily rely on algorithms like RSA and non blockchain elliptic curves, but extending the algorithms covered in standards shouldn't be too difficult as open source libraries exist.