Why adopt passkeys?

Passkeys are an emerging authentication technology. Major sites including Google, GitHub and Ebay now support passkeys. In this post I will briefly explain what passkeys are, but I'll focus on why you should support them ... and some of the pitfalls.

Passwords are finished

Pretty much every developer and certainly every security practitioner recognises the limitations of the shared secret password model. We employ password policies to mitigate some of the risks, but even the most restrictive password policy can't …

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