Support was first offered in May, but now Google suggests it as the default choice.

Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device.

Now I don’t know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it’s really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

    • alvvayson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s actually quite similar, yes, in the sense that it uses a public/private key pair linked to your account.

      But this works on the application layer and you don’t use certificates.

      Much easier to setup.