Can anybody explain me why #passkeys are better for the security in comparison to 2FA?

corbado.com/blog/passkeys-vs-2

All of the arguments against "normal" 2FA can be made against passkeys if adoption stops..

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1. I don't know anybody writing down 2FA passwords or codes. This argument is wrong. This already exists on 2FA.
2. Same like 1.
3. With a sane login manager that auto fills the fields this is a non-issue as well.

Who is trying to hard to sell passkeys? And why are articles like this so dominant?

I feel like we want biometric IDs so hard that we just claim whatever we want to gain our goal.

#security #convinience #2fa #mfa #passwords

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@Anachron
> I don't know anybody writing down 2FA passwords or codes
I do! And OTPs are generated by a script on a particular machine that I call over ssh — so those aren't stored on the same machine I'm logging in from😁

@Anachron
And passkeys… I don't get that either, to me this "just rely on someone's infrastructure and expect it to be secure and comfy" sounds like bullshit🤷

@m0xee @Anachron You remind me of this junior developer, who, whenever his code wasn’t working, was looking for bugs in the library he was using.

What’s the name for the opposite of impostor syndrome again?

@oscherler @m0xee no idea, I just dont like it when an imperfect solution is being replaced by another inperfect one and all praise it until the next best thing comes around the corner.

I guess I'm just getting old and dont believe in these things anymore.

@oscherler
I don't quite get your point. I don't expect my implementation to be technologically/cryptographically superior to what Apple/Google/MS can come up with — there is no need for it to be: centralised infrastructure, no matter how well defended will always remain an attractive target, my script — never will be, it's too unique and not worth the effort, this is purely practical standpoint🤷
@Anachron

@m0xee My point is that a lot of security experts agree that passkeys are better than passwords, immune to fishing, etc, yet you, obviously not a security expert, feel confident enough to suggest it’s all bullshit.

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