Episode
WTF is a passkey with William Brown
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- Open Source Security
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- Jan 26, 2026
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- 3775
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Summary
William Brown is back! This time Josh chats with him about Passkeys. WTF are they? A Passkey is a form of multi factor authentication, but it's not super obvious what that really means. William does a fantastic job explaining what a Passkey is, how we got to where we are today with Passkeys. He shares a ton of explanations about the whole world of authentication along the way. Some of this stuff is basically magic. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-01-passkey-william-brown/