Seven Misunderstandings About Passkeys

Rightfully Resistant to Change

Password management is a thing that many people feel very strongly about. Many folks don’t like passwords and hope for a better way. But other folks have a solid system built around their password security and are rightfully very skeptical of systems that claim to improve on what they have. They have good reasons for liking their current setup and are hesitant to change what works for them. That’s wise.

Passkeys Enter the Picture

Thus many people are skeptical of passkeys, the new protocol from the FIDO Alliance that purports to drastically improve the safety, security, and user experience of logging in to websites and mobile applications.

Passkeys have been officially announced by Apple and put into developer builds for Chrome and Android by Google. Microsoft is preparing its version as well. The reason that these three companies are critical to adoption is that they represent the vast majority of devices, computers, browsers, and operating systems. If these three all agree on something, then there is probably something to it.

I Read the Comments

Since both Apple and Google have announced support for passkeys, there have been many articles describing passkeys, how they…