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by konha 776 days ago
They can be. Depends on how the are implemented.

Passkeys can:

- Replace the whole login (including discovery of the user id)

- Just replace the password, after a user specified a user id

- Be used as a second factor just like TOTP

They are definitely more phishing resistant for what it’s worth, even if just used for MFA. TOTP codes can be copied manually by an unsuspecting user.

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Thanks for the clarification! Do you know if any services that implemented the full flow including the discovery of user id ?
We do this for https://tender.run - the feature is called conditional mediation / ui. I found this article[0] helpful for implementation.

[0]: https://web.dev/articles/passkey-form-autofill#fetch_a_chall...

GitHub
See also: https://webauthn.io

If you want to explore more options.