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FIDO Alliance passkey spec grants sites unilateral control over credential export and recovery

FIDO Alliance passkey spec grants sites unilateral control over credential export and recovery

Passkeys shift authentication control from users to platform vendors and relying parties through mandatory sync and attestation. The FIDO Alliance structure excludes consumer advocates while embedding recovery restrictions that passwords and TOTP never imposed. Sites gain gradual enforcement levers without user-visible migration paths.

Next steps include monitoring the WebAuthn Level 3 draft for any export mandate and tracking browser telemetry on attested-passkey rejection rates after Chrome 126 ships its updated policy toggle.

⚡ Prediction

FIDO: 60% of top-500 sites will enforce attested-only passkeys by end of 2025

Sources (3)

  • [1]
    Primary Source(https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them)
  • [2]
    Supporting Source(https://fidoalliance.org/specifications/)
  • [3]
    Supporting Source(https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-2/)