• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in
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    7 minutes ago

    Yea, I’d rather have a 32 character password created by my password manager. Instead of adding individual keys to each device, having all decives access the same database is much simpler.

  • ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
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    16 minutes ago

    What is the point of having a passkey on OneDrive ?

    isn’t the whole point of OneDrive that you can access your files anywhere ?

    Am I missing something here ?

  • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    A passkey is a key pair where you keep the private key and give the public one to the service. Then you can log in by proving you have the private key. Fairly simple in theory. Horribly complex in practice.

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    4 hours ago

    Not feeling great about the opening saying keys are necessarily locked to a single device. If that was true, they wouldn’t be in active use.

    • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      Yep. I use them because my password manager handles cross device passkeys. If I had to set passkeys up on every single device I use, per device per web service, I don’t think I’d bother with them…

    • SpiffyPotato@feddit.uk
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      2 hours ago

      He does caveat that statement around 10 minutes into the video. But I still think it can be a useful technology even if it’s not portable since it can ease a typical sign in flow. I don’t think as this stage it’ll fully replace passwords.