A post called Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. has been doing the rounds over the last few days, making it pretty high on Hacker News, and I've had it sent to me many times with an 'is this true?' kind of vibe. It's written for
I wonder if the implementation impressions are dependent on the platform. I’m using Apple devices for my phone and laptop, also Apple Passwords and Safari. Whenever I see Passkeys prompts it’s very seamless and almost the same as if I was filling in a password. It’s very confusing to read what people write about it online, I can only imagine people hurting themselves on purpose dramatically like in an old teleshopping ad. That said, there’s maybe 5 websites I frequent that do Passkeys and I never decline creating one so the adoption isn’t going great.
It’s very dependent on RP ime. Most (90%+) are really easy to work with and “it just works”. But sometimes I go to use my passkey and it wants a hardware key when I saved my key onto my password manager and so I can’t actually respond to the request for the passkey at all. It’s not super common but it does happen.
I wonder if the implementation impressions are dependent on the platform. I’m using Apple devices for my phone and laptop, also Apple Passwords and Safari. Whenever I see Passkeys prompts it’s very seamless and almost the same as if I was filling in a password. It’s very confusing to read what people write about it online, I can only imagine people hurting themselves on purpose dramatically like in an old teleshopping ad. That said, there’s maybe 5 websites I frequent that do Passkeys and I never decline creating one so the adoption isn’t going great.
It’s very dependent on RP ime. Most (90%+) are really easy to work with and “it just works”. But sometimes I go to use my passkey and it wants a hardware key when I saved my key onto my password manager and so I can’t actually respond to the request for the passkey at all. It’s not super common but it does happen.
Firefox/Windows/ProtonPass