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VessV
3 years agoOccasional Contributor
My passkey experience: so far a failure
Since all the passkey buzz started I'd been somewhat keeping track and learning about it with moderate enthusiasm; and when today I saw that it's implemented in the full public 1PW release, I thought...
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3 years agoI have a similar bad experience, and I decided to ignore passkeys for the next year or two, to spare me constant trouble and frustration in trying to make it work but fail for one reason or the other. I will look again how it works out then.
As far as I see it, it's at the edge of being not universal and useful enough to get widespread use for the ordinary user, similar to as it is with hardware keys. Not as tedious as hardware keys, but still not comfortable enough to prefer it over userid+password. Still too much hassle around it, some surprising constraints you never thought of.
They are not the password replacement for every daily login business at some random website. They are currently only a replacement for some important singular websites, where you explicitly choose passkeys instead of passwords. But the bulk of the websites, for example community forums like this, will probably never even consider to offer it.