Bringing passkeys to Android and Chrome
The thread here seems like a dumpster fire to me. Everyone here is worrying about lock-in to an open standard, so I want to clarify things.<p>WebAuthn is an open standard. It's a way for you to prove to a website that you have a specific private key. There's no lock-in, because the key is portable (unless you don't want it to be). There's no privacy issue, because the key is unique per website. There's no security issue, because it's unphishable and can be unstealable if it's in hardware.<p>If you don't like Google or Apple, use your favorite password manager. All it will have to keep is a private key per website, and you're done. No usernames or passwords. You visit a site and are automatically logged in with a browser prompt.<p>This is amazing, it's the best thing that's ever happened to authentication. It's something the end user <i>cannot</i> have stolen. Can we be a bit more excited about it?<p>EDIT: If you want to try it, I just verified that <a href="https://www.pastery.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pastery.net/</a> works great with Passkeys even though I haven't touched the code in a year.<p>That means that django-webauthin also works great with Passkeys, for you Django users:<p><a href="https://pypi.org/project/django-webauthin/" rel="nofollow">https://pypi.org/project/django-webauthin/</a><p>Also, the latest Firefox on Android seems to work great.