Every site I’ve used a passkey on still has the option of logging in with username and password. A Yubikey is just faster and more convenient (type the pin and touch the device) than opening up my password manager.
Oh hell yes that sounds simple! Maybe we could call these codes “passwords” and call the service a “password manager”. Maybe we could even implement some kind of browser thing to automatically input these in webpages for more convenience.
While I do get your point, the fact that it can be used as a second factor of authentication you just have to touch (best case scenario) instead of looking up you phone messages or open one of your 7 apps of 2FA codes and input that , is pretty neat.
Work gave everyone one this year, now we are required to use it.
These are so fucking annoying and so shitty and barely work and now I have this stupid USB thing I have to use on my phone and laptop so it’s constantly plugged in and unplugged and it’s probably going to break within a year, and God did I say how much I fucking hate these stupid Yubikeys?
Thanks, I’ve been willing to buy one when they were hyped some time ago (a decade or something), but changed my mind. Never regretted. Got yourself a nice password manager, that’s plenty.
What’s this supposed to mean?
Yubikey. It’s basically a passkey but locked onto a physical chip
Oh hell yes, that way if I lose it I can’t log into anything!!
Every site I’ve used a passkey on still has the option of logging in with username and password. A Yubikey is just faster and more convenient (type the pin and touch the device) than opening up my password manager.
Unless you also register a backup key and carefully store recovery codes whenever a service provides them!
Oh hell yes that sounds simple! Maybe we could call these codes “passwords” and call the service a “password manager”. Maybe we could even implement some kind of browser thing to automatically input these in webpages for more convenience.
While I do get your point, the fact that it can be used as a second factor of authentication you just have to touch (best case scenario) instead of looking up you phone messages or open one of your 7 apps of 2FA codes and input that , is pretty neat.
My password manager supports both, passwords and 2FA. It’s still convenient, and secure too.
You might be into something here
I wanted one of these for a long time.
Work gave everyone one this year, now we are required to use it.
These are so fucking annoying and so shitty and barely work and now I have this stupid USB thing I have to use on my phone and laptop so it’s constantly plugged in and unplugged and it’s probably going to break within a year, and God did I say how much I fucking hate these stupid Yubikeys?
Thanks, I’ve been willing to buy one when they were hyped some time ago (a decade or something), but changed my mind. Never regretted. Got yourself a nice password manager, that’s plenty.
YubiKey, one of the many examples of loging in via keys