thus rendering them redundant, because their strength is being bound to a single physical device. if they're portable, they're as good as asymmetric key pairs.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago

Their strength is being half a cryptographic key, not that they’re device bound.

That was a “requirement” that big tech wanted, to force you to be dependent on TPM storage, so you’d be forced to use a Trusted(tm) device and OS. It was made optional after pushback from basically everyone else.

Password managers support Passkeys now. Bitwarden and KeePassX among others.

As long as I trust that my password manager is secure, and as long as I use a strong master password or (better) have a hardware key to unlock it, it is way more secure than a password, and I can still install Linux without losing my logins.