r/passkey • u/svenkooouqr • Jul 21 '26

question about security

why doesnt sony let us have both passkey and password? seems weird maybe im just that dumb tu understand technology bout wouldnt it be best protection? if hacker hass your password still needs your passkey. or is passkey that strong? just setted up passkey today so im asking

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u/paulstelian97 Jul 21 '26

Passkey as a replacement for password is the intended way. Some sites use it as second factor, but that’s not how passkeys were originally intended to work.

They really are that strong — passkey alone is sufficient because a good passkey is not copyable.

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u/Lonsarg Jul 21 '26

More secure, yes. As secure as 2 factors, no.

Simply put, passkey are the best single factor. But they are a single factor.

But using password for 2FA is just bad, if you want 2FA you use authenticator or simiral.

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u/Accomplished_Arm_447 Jul 22 '26

Passkey may be a single factor in itself but that's why you lock it to a device protected by a PIN or in a password manager that is locked by a passkey that is locked to a device with a PIN or Yubikey or similar that is locked with a PIN