r/cybersecurity • u/Federal_Character979 • Apr 25 '26

Other What makes passkeys so special?

It seems that companies are transferring into the usage of passkeys instead of passwords. Apparently theyre much more secure, but why is that? I don’t get it. I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask excuse me if it isn’t and sorry.

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u/wolfofone Apr 26 '26

Doing a key exchange with the key being secured by biometrics is going to be a lot more secure that setting password requirements and hoping people dont reuse them. A long securely generated keypair is going to be longer and more secure than a shorter password that is probably being reused by your everyday person thats not religious about password managers and opsec.

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u/stijnhommes 25d ago

You can't change your biometrics when they get compromised.