> There is virtually no difference to writing down a password on a piece of paper. Well, I guess a passkey is a lot longer than the avg password.
The big difference is not just that a passkey is a private key, it's that the server you register the passkey within holds only the corresponding public key. They don't have a copy of your password (long or otherwise), not even a hashed version of it that could be recovered from a password database dump of the server.
This is a big improvement compared to the days of having your "strong password" end up on the dark web somewhere.
The big difference is not just that a passkey is a private key, it's that the server you register the passkey within holds only the corresponding public key. They don't have a copy of your password (long or otherwise), not even a hashed version of it that could be recovered from a password database dump of the server.
This is a big improvement compared to the days of having your "strong password" end up on the dark web somewhere.