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mike48397289
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3 years ago

Passkeys and change of email address for existing account (possible bug or design flaw?)

While experimenting with passkeys I setup a passkey on my adobe account. It worked with 1password for setup and login. I then noticed it was an old email address so I changed the email address. I was...
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mike48397289
Frequent Contributor
3 years ago

Hi

Thanks for this. It is good to shed some light on what is happening behind the scenes.

I accept it is likely something at Adobe's end. But as someone closer to the workings of passkeys than most - are you able to answer:

  1. How should a passkey work in the event of a change of email address?
  2. Should a passkey be dependent on the email address? or should it be dependent on some other more static item like a unique login ID?

The scenario I encountered is certainly like to occur a lot as passkeys roll out more widely, its the sort of testing that is easily missed as well

I guess I have a reasonable idea of how passkeys are working in principle but there are elements of the detail (higher level detail - not the eye watering one) that I am missing, and I am sure many others too.

Thanks