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Passwordless.ID News & Articles
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Passwordless.ID News & Articles is the company blog at blog.passwordless.id, writing about security and web. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “WebAuthn vs. Passkeys”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's WebAuthn vs passkeys post as an easily digestible explainer of the privacy and ease-of-use trade-offs of passkeys, for people new to the topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- WebAuthn vs. Passkeys2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-21
What Hacker News says?
For others new to WebAuthn and Passkeys (like me), worth noting that the privacy/ease-of-use trade-offs for Passkeys are somewhat contentious. Here's an easily digestible summary of why: https://blog.passwordless.id/webauthn-vs-passkeys . Though will hopefully be mitigated somewhat when more password managers like Bitwarden start supporting storing passkeys (apparently their support is coming in October: https://bit…
Comment linking /webauthn-vs-passkeys
on “When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished”Submitted WebAuthn vs. Passkeys as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Passwordless authentication for your website in 5 minutes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The future of web authentication using touch / face / PIN is there as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Passwordless.id – Screenshots as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Passwordless.id – Roadmap as a story · 1 points
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