Passkeys / WebAuthN / FIDO

festus77 · 30 Oct 2022, 01:51 AM

Anyone know if Fastmail has plans to implement passkeys as the primary method of authentication?

Thanks,
festus

Terry · 31 Oct 2022, 09:57 AM

Not sure.
Have a look here its very interesting.

https://www.fastmail.com/about/dpa/annex-2/

TenFour · 31 Oct 2022, 08:53 PM

I suspect everyone will have to introduce Passkeys once Google, Microsoft, and Apple go fully that way. The money in email is in business customers and they will begin to demand it if they already use Passkeys with their other major online accounts. I have read that a high percentage of business held desk work is employees locked out due to password problems. Having sat near the IT department a few years back I believe it--constant calls from locked out employees. Hopefully, Passkeys will help with that problem. The one thing I am waiting for is how this will work with the major password managers. It seems in most cases you will still need to store a traditional password in order to login if the Passkey fails for some reason, and also I need all sorts of other private information for most accounts that would require the security of a Passkey. For example, several sites require a PIN or other code in addition once you're logged in. Also, since I use a wide variety of email addresses I often can't remember exactly which one goes with which site. Stuff like that gets stored in the Password manager.

festus77 · 31 Oct 2022, 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terry

Not sure.
Have a look here its very interesting.

https://www.fastmail.com/about/dpa/annex-2/

Interesting stuff, but more of a high level overview than the nitty gritty.

Thanks though, never seen that page before.

festus

30 Oct 2022, 01:51 AM	#1
festus77 Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Near the Pecos Wilderness, NM Posts: 41	Passkeys / WebAuthN / FIDO Anyone know if Fastmail has plans to implement passkeys as the primary method of authentication? Thanks, festus

31 Oct 2022, 09:57 AM	#2
Terry The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: VK4 Posts: 3,028	Not sure. Have a look here its very interesting. https://www.fastmail.com/about/dpa/annex-2/

31 Oct 2022, 08:53 PM	#3
TenFour Master of the @ Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: USA Posts: 1,742	I suspect everyone will have to introduce Passkeys once Google, Microsoft, and Apple go fully that way. The money in email is in business customers and they will begin to demand it if they already use Passkeys with their other major online accounts. I have read that a high percentage of business held desk work is employees locked out due to password problems. Having sat near the IT department a few years back I believe it--constant calls from locked out employees. Hopefully, Passkeys will help with that problem. The one thing I am waiting for is how this will work with the major password managers. It seems in most cases you will still need to store a traditional password in order to login if the Passkey fails for some reason, and also I need all sorts of other private information for most accounts that would require the security of a Passkey. For example, several sites require a PIN or other code in addition once you're logged in. Also, since I use a wide variety of email addresses I often can't remember exactly which one goes with which site. Stuff like that gets stored in the Password manager.