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710: A Passwordless Future Passkeys with Anna Pobletts

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Anna Pobletts of Passage about passkeys, how passkeys work, how to implement passkeys on your website or app, what the recommended UI is for passkeys, what happens to your passkey if you lose your phone, and more. Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:36 Why do we need something like Passkeys? 03:34 What are Passkeys for? 10:04 What took us so long to get to Passkeys? 11:07 Where’s the two factor part of Passkeys? 13:08 How are Passkeys phishing resistant? 14:44 What happens to your Passkey if you lose your phone? 18:40 What’s the password recovery workflow like with Passkeys? 23:08 Having a backup device helps a lot with Passkeys 24:58 Why companies should use two factor or Passkeys 29:26 What are the standards and tech behind Passkeys? 32:38 What kinds of companies are implementing Passkeys? 34:34 What is the recommended UI for telling users about Passkeys? 39:17 How do you implement Passkeys on your app or website? 41:47 1Password open sourced low level libraries 47:34 What does the future look like for Passkeys? 51:07 Supper Club questions 53:44 Sick Picks 1Password Have I Been Pwned 1Password Watchtower Passkeys.directory passkeys.dev FIDO Alliance - Open Authentication Standards More Secure than Passwords Sick Picks Cascadia Shameless Plugs Passage by 1Password Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

Transcript

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0:00.0

I sure hope you're hungry.

0:02.0

Who I'm starving?

0:04.0

Wash those hands, pull up a chair and secure that feed bag.

0:08.0

Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and West Boss attempt to use human language to converse with and picked the brains of other developers.

0:16.8

I thought there was going to be food.

0:18.8

So buckle up and grab that old shit handle because this ride is going to get wild.

0:25.0

This is the Syntax Supper Club.

0:30.0

Welcome to Syntax. Today we have an episode on Pass Keys. This is kind of an interesting one.

0:39.4

It's one of those things like I've been hearing about it for six months and I sort of

0:43.7

sat down the other day and went through it both as like a technical user as

0:49.4

somebody who likes to understand what's happening with password and password management, as well as like a

0:56.0

developer who probably will have to implement this thing into the platforms that we use in the next little while.

1:03.4

So this is going to be an awesome one.

1:05.2

We have Anna Pabloz on.

1:08.1

She is the CTO of Pass Keys, which is a,

1:12.0

what do you call it, Anna?

1:13.2

Like it's a part of one password?

1:15.0

Yeah, so I was the CTO of Passage,

1:17.4

which was a passwordless company

1:19.4

that was acquired by one password.

1:21.4

Now we sort of operate as a business line within one password that's a separate

1:27.8

product from the password manager that everyone knows about.

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