Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.
I’m trying to stay too anonymous, the paper is of super niche interest and the vulnerability comes down to a popular configuration being vulnerable, but a hardened configuration is possible, but requires randomizing some data that folks tend to leave non-random because it’s the lazier way to set that up and it wasn’t formerly recognized that the randomness of the data had security implications.
I’m trying to stay too anonymous, the paper is of super niche interest and the vulnerability comes down to a popular configuration being vulnerable, but a hardened configuration is possible, but requires randomizing some data that folks tend to leave non-random because it’s the lazier way to set that up and it wasn’t formerly recognized that the randomness of the data had security implications.