Passkey authentication system
Your task
Design a passkey (WebAuthn/FIDO2) authentication system to replace passwords for a 100M-user consumer product, while keeping a graceful fallback for users who lose their device or are on an unsupported platform. Requirements: phishing-resistant login, credentials sync across a user's devices, and account recovery that doesn't reintroduce a phishable shared secret. Walk through registration and login, where the public-key credentials live and how they're looked up at login, the cross-device/sync story, and the hardest problem, account recovery.
It covers
- Passwordless
- Passkeys
- Webauthn