If we want a passwordless future, let's get our passkey story straight
zdnet.com
In a recent article from a well-known tech publisher that extolled the virtues of Bitwarden's password manager, the author wrote the following (by the time you read this, the passage may have been corrected):
"Passkeys are an attempt to replace the password with a key that you don't have to remember or worry about at all. When you create a passkey for a website, the site spits out two pieces of code, one it saves on the server, one it saves on your device. When you return to the site, the site checks for the code it saved to your device and if it's there, it logs you in."
The passage includes multiple incorrect statements that work against the efforts of the FIDO Alliance to educate the public on why passkeys are more secure than passwords for authenticating with websites or applications ...
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