Passkeys provide more security and are close to phishing resistant, according to internet security experts.
From a safety standpoint, passkeys are much more secure than passwords for a number of reasons.
They provide individual authentication for every user to every application — each challenge sent by the server is a new challenge, making the encryption different every time. The mutual authentication that occurs as the server authenticates the user makes them less prone to cybersecurity attacks.
Passkeys eliminate this issue since they remove the room for human errors that may become security issues. There is no reuse of passkeys, as each one is unique to each individual user as well as the application. "You've been warned in the past, don't use passwords between different applications," Moriarty said."Passkeys by design prevent any reuse, so that you're not going to get exposure if your key for one application is exposed for another because they're completely separate."
There have been some other efforts to have better security around passwords even when not using a passkey, such as using a
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