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Passkeys and Modern Authentication

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184 points Bogdanp | 4 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.725s | source
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jcmontx ◴[02 Sep 25 17:59 UTC] No.45106732[source]▶
One day Authy for desktop was deprecated and all of a sudden I was forced to always have my smartphone with me, which I was struggling to replace with a dumbphone. To this day, I have no way out of owning an smartphone for this very reason
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1. psanford ◴[02 Sep 25 18:08 UTC] No.45106857[source]▶
I assume you were using Authy desktop for TOTP? You don't need a smartphone for storing TOTP seeds or generating TOTP codes.
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2. jcmontx ◴[02 Sep 25 18:30 UTC] No.45107138[source]▶
Indeed, but I have like 40 different cloud providers, social networks and SaaS' which would be a pain to migrate
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3. dwedge ◴[02 Sep 25 19:38 UTC] No.45108008[source]▶
It's worth doing specifically because you can't be sure twilio won't do a second rug pull for mobile
4. palata ◴[02 Sep 25 20:22 UTC] No.45108492[source]▶
I understand, but 40 doesn't sound too bad. When I moved from gmail to my custom domain, I had more than that to migrate. I just did it one at a time over a few months.

Same when I got my Yubikeys: I gradually moved the OTP seeds to them, wasn't that painful.