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Comment by tempnow987

TOTP with a changing code is simple to understand and use and very resistant to both SIM Swapping and all these push based notification attacks. Push based notification attacks are relatively easy to social engineer as well - call, say you need to confirm identity and push.

Passkeys are a nightmare. For whatever reason they play SO SO badly. Microsoft / et al all seem to compete to screw this stuff up. Seriously, if you are logged into a remote desktop, the push goes through chrome to some microsoft thing which has a different pin / password / whatever. What's even crazier - I have a yubikey and somehow the passkey doesn't need the actual hardware key to be plugged in - so this passkey is being stored somewhere else.

Keep it simple. I liked the U2F yubikey flow where you had to touch the yubikey to authenticate and I like TOTP well enough as well.

parent tempnow987 2 years ago

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