Yes, that is what everyone keeps complaining about and the people who insist passkeys are the best continue to loudly and totally ignore.
The repeated response to "I lost the passkey, what now?" is apathy. It is your fault, you should have done better, eat it loser.
Because companies built passkeys for their own needs, not for users. In a managed device setting, there is a response: You go to IT and get provisioned new credentials. These companies don't care that you get fucked because they just don't care about your needs at all.
What benefit does that give you? Passkeys cannot be moved, by design. So for the website, recieving the same one means you're talking to the same device, always.
The purpose of rotating passwords is to cycle out potentially compromised ones, due to phishing attacks, keyloggers, shoulder snoops, etc. But those cannot exist with a passkey.
Doesn’t this mean that a compromised device with passkeys on it is worse than a compromised password since the passkeys can’t be rotated? I feel like the answer is obvious so there must be another angle I’m missing
Passkeys can be rotated, of course. The question was whether they should be rotated on a regular basis.
What kind of compromise are we talking about? Was the device stolen? Then yeah, you need to rotate passkeys (and all your passwords, and remotely cancel all your live sessions, none of which is new).
Was the device hacked from afar and the data read off of it? The passkey is probably fine. You can rotate it if you want to, it's not a bad idea, I probably would to be certain, but you're not pwnd even if a bad guy got a shell for a while, heck even if they got a root shell.
I understood the question to be "should passkeys be rotated regularly" to which the answer is probably no because there's not really a compromise mechanism that periodic rotation defends against as far as I know.
Rotation defends against secrets that leak through normal use and without your knowledge, like a password entered into a phishing page or snooped over your shoulder or cracked from a breached hash. Passkeys aren't vulnerable to those things because they never travel over a network, are never seen by the server, are never seen by their own users.
You change the locks on your house when a key goes missing, or is known to be in the hands of somebody you don't want getting in, it's not something you do every three months just in case. Same with passkeys.
Then how do you log in? Not all sites let you keep password logins after.
Then passkeys are a guarantee of account loss, if there is no reasonable way of recovery.
Yes, that is what everyone keeps complaining about and the people who insist passkeys are the best continue to loudly and totally ignore.
The repeated response to "I lost the passkey, what now?" is apathy. It is your fault, you should have done better, eat it loser.
Because companies built passkeys for their own needs, not for users. In a managed device setting, there is a response: You go to IT and get provisioned new credentials. These companies don't care that you get fucked because they just don't care about your needs at all.
Your passkeys should go in your password manager.
What benefit does that give you? Passkeys cannot be moved, by design. So for the website, recieving the same one means you're talking to the same device, always.
The purpose of rotating passwords is to cycle out potentially compromised ones, due to phishing attacks, keyloggers, shoulder snoops, etc. But those cannot exist with a passkey.
Doesn’t this mean that a compromised device with passkeys on it is worse than a compromised password since the passkeys can’t be rotated? I feel like the answer is obvious so there must be another angle I’m missing
Passkeys can be rotated, of course. The question was whether they should be rotated on a regular basis.
What kind of compromise are we talking about? Was the device stolen? Then yeah, you need to rotate passkeys (and all your passwords, and remotely cancel all your live sessions, none of which is new).
Was the device hacked from afar and the data read off of it? The passkey is probably fine. You can rotate it if you want to, it's not a bad idea, I probably would to be certain, but you're not pwnd even if a bad guy got a shell for a while, heck even if they got a root shell.
I understood the question to be "should passkeys be rotated regularly" to which the answer is probably no because there's not really a compromise mechanism that periodic rotation defends against as far as I know.
Rotation defends against secrets that leak through normal use and without your knowledge, like a password entered into a phishing page or snooped over your shoulder or cracked from a breached hash. Passkeys aren't vulnerable to those things because they never travel over a network, are never seen by the server, are never seen by their own users.
You change the locks on your house when a key goes missing, or is known to be in the hands of somebody you don't want getting in, it's not something you do every three months just in case. Same with passkeys.