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From: Colour Sergeant Bourne
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject: Re: Passcode security
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:05:52 -0400
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On 9/19/24 4:37 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
> On 2024-09-19 10:08, Colour Sergeant Bourne wrote:
>> With websites transitioning from passwords to passcodes for login
>> security, I guess I'll need to start using them at some point.
>
> I believe you mean passkeys.
>
>> As best I understand it, passcodes require either face ID or
>> fingerprint ID to verify. Which is more secure/less error-prone?
>>
>> Also, how do you login from a desktop or laptop?
>
> First off not that many sites have gone that way. Apple, Amazon, Google
> and some others have. My bank hasn't added it yet.
> https://www.passkeys.io/who-supports-passkeys <- list of supporting sites.
>
> To use it the device has to have some means of validating it is you:
> fingerprint, face ID. The notion is to head towards devices that have
> some biological identification.
>
> More secure? Yes, in the sense that someone trying to access your
> account on some site does not have physical possession of one of your
> devices that contains your passkey. And even if they did they could not
> trivially access your passkey w/o passing the FaceID/Fingerprint ID.
>
> I have it set up and it works quite transparently. There is a test site
> where you can set up a test account to try it out.
> https://www.passkeys.io/
>
> As my newest iMac has a fingerprint reader it too uses passcodes for
> logins where available.
>
> Also of course, one you set up a passkey on one device, it is
> synchronized to all your other devices under the same AppleID.
>
> (I assume there is a similar mechanism for PC / Android, etc.).
>
>
Right, thanks!