@nicolas17 @rmondello If everything is using a passkey, how is that initial logon done? Passkeys seem to rely on an unbroken chain of access, or require some other secondary form of auth.

I also question the value of passkeys for someone already using long random passwords with a pw manager. It seems the main benefit would be forcing normal users into a password manager. If they are saved in a single browser and work by “magic” this is going to be a confusing nightmare when they hit edge cases.

@beaufils @nixCraft bwk’s book is on archive.org. It mentions the bit below and the screenshot for where Unics comes from, and Ken filled in the gap on how it morphed to Unix.

“In 1965, they beg an to design a system
called “Multics,” the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service.”

@rmondello How can I migrate to a new platform without logging into every single site with my old system to setup passkeys with the new system?

Authy? 1Password? Ok… now what if I want to migrate to a new password manager?

@rmondello How do they handle the edges cases when everything isn’t perfect.

Say I’m on vacation, I break my phone and buy a new one. I need to login to get my data so I can get my plane tickets to go home. If my login is a passkey, then what?

I’m at a family member’s home using their copy of TurboTax and need to login to my bank on their computer to download my records, but I have a PassKey, then what?

If the answer is fall back to password auth, then what is the point of the Passkey?