• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    it can be compromised in a breach

    Sure, and then that one password is compromised. Password managers make it trivial to use unique passwords for every service, so if a service is breached, you’re basically as screwed with passwords as passkeys.

    The switching cost here is high, and the security benefits are marginal in practice IMO. I’m not against passkeys, but it should be something password managers handle, and I don’t have a strong preference between TOTP baked into your PW manager and passkeys.

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      3 hours ago

      Sure, and then that one password is compromised.

      Which means that entire service you used that password to login to is compromised. If you were using passkeys however, you would have nothing compromised.

      so if a service is breached, you’re basically as screwed with passwords as passkeys.

      No… with a passkey you would be not screwed at all. You’d be entirely unaffected.

      the security benefits are marginal in practice

      I mean in your own example that’s a reduction of 100%. That’s kind of a huge difference.