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  • Introduction
  • Passkey Best Practices for Service Providers
  • Passkey Frequently Asked Questions
  • Copyright
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Contents

  • Introduction
    • Audiences
    • Passkeys
    • Updates
  • Passkey Best Practices for Service Providers
    • Intended audience
    • Plan for user experience challenges
    • Consider how users will recover from the loss of an authenticator
    • Decide when to use discoverable credentials
    • Decide when to request attestation
    • Consider approaches for detecting passkey support in the browser or platform
    • Be cautious about requiring optional WebAuthn features
  • Passkey Frequently Asked Questions
    • What is a Passkey?
    • Is ‘passkey’ the new name for FIDO and WebAuthn credentials?
    • Why is the term passkey in the news a lot recently?
    • How are passkeys different from YubiKeys?
    • What terms will Yubico use to talk about passkeys?
    • What are the security tradeoffs between copyable and device-bound passkeys?
    • How can organizations tell what type of passkeys are used to authenticate to their services?
    • What is Yubico’s overall guidance about passkeys?
    • Can passkeys replace a password as well as another authentication factor?
  • Copyright
    • Trademarks
    • Disclaimer
    • Contact Information
    • Document Updated
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