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The year of the passkey is still far away

To give passkeys the credit they deserve, top security experts agree that the new way of logging in comes with greater security. Like every other security advancement from SMS-based multifactor authentication to hardware authentication keys, however, adoption lags because people still hesitate to make the leap.

There are still some legacy password users, but they’re being fazed out by being pushed to switch to the other options when they attempt to log on, said Matthias Keller, chief scientist and senior vice president of technology at KAYAK. We reached out to Adobe, Apple, GitHub, LinkedIn, Nintendo, PayPal, Roblox, Robinhood, TikTok, and Uber about passkey implementation, but none have responded by time of publication. Switching to passkeys aligns more with the seamless single action you get from just looking at your phone to unlock it, not the clunky steps of MFA that involve another device or extra time to access an account, Shikiar said.

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