I am a pretty technical user, and I would rather become a farmer than move to whatever "passkeys" are. Yubikeys or phones or whatever, I've had too many of these things go bzzzt, go missing, get wet, get broken, etc.
If a "passkey" is as reliable as my house key or car key, i.e. I can accidentally put it through a wash/dry cycle, then maybe. Maybe.
The nice thing about a username/password combo is I can remember them and use them everywhere. It's really straightforward. Whatever gimcrack method people use to implement "passkeys," does it work everywhere? Guaranteed?
I get it that there are some use cases where you need to have a hardware device, a passcode, a PIN and the blood of a left-handed virgin before you can access something, but those are edge cases. I almost never say this, but seriously, it would be easier and less troublesome to "educate users on the utility of passphrases instead of short passwords" than to make passkeys a thing.
> The nice thing about a username/password combo is I can remember them and use them everywhere.
The "use them everywhere" part, combined with not needing special software or hardware to use them, are the things that will keep passwords central to my authentication world for a very, very long time.
If a "passkey" is as reliable as my house key or car key, i.e. I can accidentally put it through a wash/dry cycle, then maybe. Maybe.
The nice thing about a username/password combo is I can remember them and use them everywhere. It's really straightforward. Whatever gimcrack method people use to implement "passkeys," does it work everywhere? Guaranteed?
I get it that there are some use cases where you need to have a hardware device, a passcode, a PIN and the blood of a left-handed virgin before you can access something, but those are edge cases. I almost never say this, but seriously, it would be easier and less troublesome to "educate users on the utility of passphrases instead of short passwords" than to make passkeys a thing.