What Are Passkeys? - Are Passwords Going EOL?!

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[johnfricano]

I personally would appreciate a more detailed and easy understanding of the steps needed to use and make a yubikey successful for greater security so YES to your query!

[happysprollie]

As someone who works in infosec I love the work you do in raising public awareness. Great video.

[EdwardIglesias]

A tutorial would be great, perhaps a series of tutorials. I used to use Yubikeys when they first came out but found the too inconvenient for home use. Having a physical key is great but when you have 3 or more devices spread out over work and home...

[azclaimjumper]

I like the chart at the beginning showing the time it takes hackers in 2023 to brute force passwords.
Yes, I have been using YubiKeys for at least the past 2 years. Yes, I have two Yubikeys as recommended by Yubico.
Yes, I've "Smart Card" paired both keys to all my devices which means I have to use my YubiKey to log into my devices.

[tattonegc]

The fact that I have better 2FA on my social media accounts than my financial accounts because a lot of financial sites still don't offer 2FA options drives me

[_Zabamund_]

Shannon as always amazing content thank you so much for all the time you put into researching this and sharing it. I would also love to see tutorials, I'm on android and Linux computers (desktop and laptop), and it's not clear to me how to implement this. Thanks again, awesome content.

[jimcabezola]

Mahalo for this passkey info. I JUST watched another video at "The New Oil" about a passkey called "Nitrokey", and that was fascinating, too. My threat model is very...mahjongg-playing old guy...but information security is a totally absorbing topic for me. Keep up the EXCELLENT work on this subject! Aloha!

[hammerheadcorvette]

For the last decade I have been advocating for Password managers to be the norm. Passkey's are the next evolution of this.

[chris-terrell-liveactive]

Yes a tutorial in depth would be great. You cover a lot of details and unless I can transfer the information into a more visual form, it evaporates from my memory! Very useful update, thank you.

[stevenpugh]

Thanks. I wish more financial companies supported even things like Yubikeys. It really stinks that to stay secure and maintain some ease of use I’m going to have to go all in and be locked into either Apple or Google.

I love those hash browns as well, especially once air fryers came out!

[michaelmendoza]

Hey Shannon, I’m a recent channel subscriber, and I am an IAM IT Pro. WOW! I’m so impressed with, and I am going try borrowing some of, your methods of explaining complex technical material (e.g., passkeys (multi-device FIDO Credential, WebAuthn)). Lord knows it will come in handy trying to explain this stuff to C-Suite folk. Kudos to you! I’ve watched the show 2x and will recommend it to others. MM. Oh! By the way, I loved the clever "Salty hash browns" innuendo analogy! :)

[michaelekpo]

Great content! Yes, passkeys are great, but available information about it is kind of sketchy. Please, do more detailed video explanation on it. Thank you Shannon!!!

[azclaimjumper]

CONGRATULATIONS, Shannon, 102, 000 subscribers.

[jeffhale]

Thanks for sharing: very informative. I look forward to future videos. Blessings on your day!

[ndbass]

Considering most websites prevent continued login requests, the threat of having your accounts brute-forced nowadays isn't really a concern. Maybe more so it's a concern for companies that apply poor cryptographic security for their data storage, if they lose the data and then some hacker can spend a long time trying to brute force it.

[snowman]

Yes, more videos on this topic, please

[mavchb]

When Apple "presented" Passkeys last year I was really hoping it would catch on. however now over a year later only a couple of companies have adopted it. It does not seem to work in all browsers - and it is not clear which are actually supported. My biggest problem is, that is not clear to me how the process works technically.

In some videos people said in order to sign in on a foreign device - say you want to login to google on your office PC - you need BT on both devices but the devices do not need to be paired. I tried this and - we use edge - and the Google page did not give me the Passkeys login option. It just asked for a password. Why? This really needs to just work in any browser and when it does not there needs to be a clear error message why passkeys is not available so you can fix it.

[ZacharyAuciello]

Oh! This future tech is going to be big! As someone who often works with end users I know they mostly disregard password best practices. This may finally resolve that lingering issue.

[charlesbarilleaux]

Good topic. I ordered a v5 Yubikey to replace my v4 (thanks for the code!). I look forward to your video on using it as a passkey (though I'll try to figure it out first. :) )

[aaronag]

Outstanding explanation and definitely something I will now think about implementing. As for further explanation videos, can we get one on your constant changing hair and nail colours lol Thanks for your videos, which at about 10 mins is perfect for doing bite size catch ups.