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I always have my account logged in, but yesterday I wanted to login on my second device and I noticed that passkey can now be used on Stake.com (Stake.us for people living in United States) to login instead of password.

I have noticed this on several exchanges but I have not noticed it on any gambling sites before until yesterday when I saw it on Stake.

I have not seen anyone that complained about passkey since I have been seen it on exchanges, but is it safe enough to be used?

Note: I only have just little amount of money that I can afford to lose on gambling sites. This is just for educational reason. Let me see if I can learn from some people about passkey vulnerabilities.

I was active on stake some few years back, and sure passkey features have always been there for additional security on your stake account.

This is not new on stake,  Maybe you are just getting to know about that features on the casino.

I have also seen that feature of either 2fA ir passkeys on a few cryptocurrency casinos that we have around.

I think passkey is just for convenience over additional security, it might looks safer because each fingerprint is unique from one to another person, so the chance for other person to compromise our account should be impossible.

But, I don't feel it's safe because any system always has a vulnerability.

A password with combination password and special letter should be enough to make people not able to access your account., risk of vulnerability is very low for using password.

I don't use alternative logins for any platforms at all. Either I use the save password option, and if not, then I go with the traditional username password way. I don't know the reason but I get used to it and with crypto gambling I don't even add 2FA because I rarely leave any balance with them when I leave. ;)

I use 2FA on Stake, but it will still require you password if you want to login. 2FA for withdrawal if you set it, or you can use email authentication for withdrawal.

I like 2FA, probably because I am very use to it. Even on my dormant accounts, I set 2FA, both on casinos and exchanges.

I have been using it for exchanges and other platforms, and I have not encountered any issue while using it. The only problem that I think might occur is if there is a compromise on the user's cloud, which is linked to the passkey, since the passkey can be synchronized into other devices if access to your cloud, which stores it, is gained. For the time being, I consider it secure until there is some kind of complaint about its security.

Passkey is a very strong security that plays a big role in securing an account. In casino sites, a user can have a lot of winning money and every gambler deposits more or less money there. So the passkey feature will give the user a security. Although there is already a 2FA feature there, it was enough, but when they added passkey to their security system, it will definitely gain more trust from the users towards stake. I think most of the gamblers in this forum have used stake.com at least once, including me. This feature is really commendable, which they were the first to add as a casino site.

I personally do not use that option to log in as I do not consider it to be secure enough. I always use the email/password option and can use passkeys for additional confirmation when already logged in to my account.

If anyone is going to use passkeys I will only advise it for additional security and will not recommend using biometrics.

- Jay -

2FA is enough for me because it's the safest unless someone can get into your email or into your extension if you keep it there to get the code for the casino, but if you think you want more of an alternative login, it's not bad to add a passkey, I haven't done it on stake even though I know it, but on exchanges I have it, especially on platforms that I use a lot for my activities.

From my experience passkey this days are not safe for me because recently I have tried a trend with my family and I figured out that my facial identity can be used to access anything of my with my family members because we have similar faces and recently I also noticed that my finger print could open someone else phone my family too which is crazy but for gambling site I don't have issues because I rare have a good amount left on there just garbages for gambling and fun.

You can't generalize that all passkeys are not safe. It is not compulsory to use facial recognition; you are always free to try biometric or password (both alphabetical or numerical). It has been a long, since I stopped using facial recognition because it has its own flaws and I wouldn't want such to be a protection to access my casino, wallet, or exchange.

I have encountered a passkey on the Binance exchange, and it is very safe and secure, but I have yet to see such on the gambling website, and I must say that it is good because that doesn't require you to start inputting passwords or what have you. It is very easy and convenient to use, but my question is this:  with the pass keys, can you be able to access your account from other devices? For instance, if one uses a fingerprint option for login, and they want to log in through another device, would they need to log in just like that, or would they still use the same fingerprint to log in through the different account?

The stake casino is really too good, and I see that they are constantly improving themselves, which is a very smart move for the casino. This alone shows how security-conscious they are and are willing to protect the assets of their loyal community.

I have encountered those security features on exchanges before, specially on Binance and also I think it is available on Coinbase. I am happy this kind of security feature is being implemented in Stake and other casinos, specially keeping in mind the huge amount of money which is kept by some whales on casinos (basically people who have a lot of money to gamble away). The more security casinos have, the better (in my opinion).

Since I dont have any significant amount of money in any online casino, I dont have any need to sign up for this kind of security setup, but I would surely go for it if I had at least five hundred buck deposited on Stake.

Anyways, don't be afraid of embracing technology, specially if it is for securing of our own money.

My first time hearing this and not sure any other gambling site has it or maybe they do but I do not know about it, passkey is some kind of having biometrics link to your account or something I guess that’s what it is but then is this not somehow going to be a threat to us one day? I’m very curious because data leak and all that is still a thing.

I think the goal of passkey is to make things more safe, so I assume that is the reason you haven’t been seeing complaints about it. I am impressed that Stake is offering this. I don’t personally use it, but that is because of how I have my pc security settings. If I ever logged in via my mobile I would be all about this feature.

I've never used passkeys in casinos since none of them have implemented the feature yet, but I wouldn't mind trying them out in the future if they become available.

The only place where I got to try Passkey was in exchanges, and they're convenient to have once you're done linking up your device.

I also agree with what Solo mentioned, Passkey feels like it's more about ease of logging in since you only need to press once or twice on your phone, and you're good to go.

Oh, that's interesting. Maybe more platforms will adopt this.

I'm actually interested on passkeys, but I'm looking into storing them in a hardware device like yubikey which I believe has better security as oppose to those that has cloud access. From what I understand, the keys should reside in a secure element that never leaves the device like in hardware wallets.

I wonder if anyone here has the same setup or know more about this on a deeper level. Let me know your thoughts.  :D

I’ve seen passkeys rolling out on more crypto platforms lately so it’s not surprising Stake added them too in general passkeys are pretty safe because they’re based on device-level authentication fingerprint, PIN, FaceID, etc and they don’t expose your actual password anywhere the only real weakness is the one you already mentioned if someone gets access to your synced cloud account (Google/Apple) they could potentially use the passkey on another device so securing that cloud account is basically the most important part for gambling accounts where the balance is small and you already use 2FA a passkey is more of a convenience feature than a huge security upgrade it’s definitely not easier to “hack” than a normal password.

Yes, more platforms are adopting passphrase. Not yet common on crypto gambling sites, but it will later become common.

The passphrase is only stored on a cloud, that is the reason I do not like it. But I think the way it is done, it is still very secure because not that an attacker will only have access to where you store it on the cloud, but also need to have access to your biometry like face unlock or fingerprint.

I login the usual way with my stake account but if that's allowed, those who prefer to log in that way, that's good for you. I don't want to log in with other methods but if it's convenient for those who are used to it, that's a quick way of logging in for most of you guys.

I think, as long as you are the only person that knows your passkey, then it is safe just as password too but if you are always reserving a huge amount on the casino, you should enable two factors authenticity. It's more than 2 months now, I have not logged out from my stake account because anytime I log out, due to slow speed of network in my area, it take longer time for me to log back in, so I always don't log out from my account.