Administration. Information desk.

Signing in with a passkey

There are no passwords in the lab. Chat, photos, the door and the control room open with a passkey: finger or face on the phone, done. This page explains how that works and what to do when the phone is gone.

What is a passkey?

A digital key that lives on your phone. It is unlocked with Face ID, your fingerprint or the phone’s PIN. There is nothing to remember and nothing to write down. A passkey only fits the real address: on a fake page it simply does not work, so nobody can phish it.

What is Pocket ID?

The lab’s front desk, at id.nirusdev.com. You sign in there with your passkey, and every service trusts that answer: chat, photos, documents, door, control room. One account for everything. Only bonny creates accounts, there is no sign-up. Pocket ID never asks for a password. How it works inside is shown in test chamber 12.

The first time

01
The link. bonny creates your account and sends you a sign-in link, by e-mail or as a QR code. It works only once and only for a short time.
02
Open it on your own phone. Open the link on the device you want to sign in with later. Do not forward it and do not open it on someone else’s computer: the passkey ends up on whichever device opens the link.
03
Create the passkey. Tap “Add passkey” and confirm with Face ID or your fingerprint. An iPhone keeps it in the iCloud Keychain, Android in Google Password Manager.
04
From now on. Choose “Sign in with Pocket ID” anywhere, finger on, you are in.

On a computer

If the computer has no passkey, the browser offers to use another device and shows a QR code. Scan it with your phone and confirm with Face ID. Bluetooth has to be on for both devices. If you often use the same computer, you can add a second passkey there after signing in at id.nirusdev.com.

New phone

Same accountiPhone to iPhone with the same Apple ID, or Android to Android with the same Google account: the passkey comes along by itself. Nothing to do.
Other systemFrom iPhone to Android or the other way round: tell bonny, you get a new sign-in link and use it to create a passkey on the new phone.

Lost phone

No need to panic: without your face, finger or PIN nobody can use the passkey. Let bonny know. He removes the old passkey and sends you a new sign-in link for the new device.

If you get an e-mail about a sign-in from a new device that was not you, please tell him right away too.

Contact

By e-mail to office@nirus.at or straight to bonny in the chat.