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1. kenrick95 · 1789734684 · focus · HN ↗

   Passkeys have a marketing problem where no one is able to describe simply what it is without having to use technical jargon. There's also the problem where each OS tries too hard in pushing this to the face of end-user

   1. ryan-duve · 1789735140 · focus · HN ↗

      > Passkeys are passwords your second device makes/types for you, without you ever seeing it.

      My bigger problem with passkeys is how there's no universal way to register more than one device (in case the first one is lost).

      1. blackdahlia313 · 1789735997 · focus · HN ↗

         Proton Pass. I moved to it and love it.

         1. malfist · 1789737047 · focus · HN ↗

            Proton Pass hardly meets the bar of "universal way to register more than one device"

            Proton Pass is a specific way to do that, but not a universal way. Bitwarden can't use proton pass to move keys around, google can't, firefox can't.

      2. [deleted] · 1789736303 · focus · HN ↗

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      3. jmbwell · 1789739622 · focus · HN ↗

         This burden is on the site using passkeys. There should be some equivalent of “My Account > Security > Passkeys > Add Passkey.” There often isn’t, which is an incomplete implementation. And yes it’s frustrating.

         1. account42 · 1789742130 · focus · HN ↗

            Sites didn't need to do anything special for this use case with passwords so it is a passkey problem.
         2. alienbaby · 1789746815 · focus · HN ↗

            It doesn't matter whose problem it is, it shouldn't be there.

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