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Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they?

Systems Approach I have been playing around with passkeys, or as they are formally known, discoverable credentials. Think of passkeys as a replacement of passwords. They are defined in the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). This work evolved from several prior efforts including those of the FIDO alliance (FIDO = Fast Identity Online). My quick take on passkeys is that they are a good idea, and if we could convince the world to use them instead of ...

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