Passkeys in Action | FIDO Alliance Demo Video
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it to explain how passkeys work across ecosystems and are not proprietary.
What it is
A FIDO Alliance demo with Google and Microsoft engineers showing passkeys working across operating systems, browsers, and devices. It walks through registering and signing in on new devices.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends pronlover723 · 2022-12 · on “Introducing passkeys in Chrome”
this entire comment section is so full of BS! People ranting about stuff they don't understand and coming up with random conspiracy theories that have no basis in reality PassKeys are NOT proprietary. They're a standard. You can implement it yourself if you want or use several other implementations not run by FAMG. Here's a video on how it works [this video] * Can I share the keys between chrome, firefox, and safari? You don't need to. That's not how it works. Chrome, Firefox, and Safari and every device will have a different key for the same service (see video) * How do I share keys between different types of devices? (mac, ios, android, windows) You don't. You authenticate and a new key is crea
Cites psanford · 2022-10 · on “Passkeys.io – A Passkey Authentication Demo”
Part of the design is that every site will support multiple passkeys tied to an individual account. So it will be normal to use one browser to bootstrap registering another browser with a new passkey into your account. This video[1] by the FIDO alliance shows what that process will look like with a bunch of different OS and browser combos. [1]: [this video]
Cites barkerja · 2023-02 · on “Passkeys for Infrastructure”
> There's no way to migrate your passkeys between ecosystems. The FIDO Alliance doesn't recommend that you migrate Passkeys, but instead, you have multiple passkeys across various platforms for the same "login". See the following talk on this very thing: [this video]