this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
39 points (89.8% liked)
Hacker News
2340 readers
470 users here now
Posts from the RSS Feed of HackerNews.
The feed sometimes contains ads and posts that have been removed by the mod team at HN.
founded 11 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The goal is basically to prevent end users from using weak passwords and to make it much harder for phishing to occur, both of which IMO are kind of necessary. The vendor lock-in and the slow development of FOSS implementations are not great though. It's also not great how passkey support on at least Android seems to require proprietary blobs.
...will no longer be a problem, thanks to this
https://fidoalliance.org/specifications-credential-exchange-specifications/
Here's a video of the FIDO Alliance Executive Director & CEO, Andrew Shikiar, talking about those specifications. https://youtu.be/4gdc9p9KyQk?t=846