• Passkeys in Turbo Tax?

    Posted on February 20, 2025 at 03:00 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    I hit this last night logging into QuickBooks online, but you may also see it when logging into TurboTax on a system that supports passkeys.

    A passkey is a modern authentication method designed to replace traditional passwords, offering enhanced security and user convenience for accessing online accounts and applications. Unlike passwords, which are user-generated and vulnerable to various attacks, passkeys are automatically generated using public-key cryptography. It’s tied to that PC. So even though I set up a passkey for this computer, it doesn’t mean that I am mandated to use a passkey on all computers. If I logged into a PC that didn’t support passkey technology, it would require my two-factor authentication to log in. Intuit may have supported this before, but this was the first time it popped up — encouraging me to use it.

    The main thing is that passkeys are phishing resistant.

    Are they immune to attacks?  Nothing is immune. Given enough time, energy, computing power, and especially adversary-in-the-middle attacks, the latter being when the attacker manipulates login in forms to expose alternative, weaker logins or device compromises in which the private key could be exposed. But it does mean that the attacker will be encouraged to go down the street and attack your neighbor. Ultimately, that’s our goal — to make it just a little bit harder so that the attacker will find the weak link elsewhere.

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