MacMini8,1 allows passkeys use, but no authentication required (anyone can use them on my Hackintosh?)

MacMini8,1 allows passkeys use, but no authentication required (anyone can use them on my Hackintosh?)

Hello everyone, I've had an issue that's bugging me and no true solution or reference found on-line.

Running Ventura latest 13.6.4 on Intel NUC10i5FNH (OpenCore 0.9.5 etc.) and since Montery, I have enabled passkeys (via "auto-fill" as requested via Keychain) on my iCloud account, including my iDevices.

However, from the first use as I remember, the prompt on websites (that support passkeys obviously and on which I have created one e.g. Amazon, in this example) do not prompt me for any kind of authentication.

After creating a passkey on Amazon, eBay, etc. on Safari, which is stored OK in my Keychain and sync'ed across my Apple ID account-linked devices, on my hackintosh I am offered to use the passkey without any method of authentication whatsoever (in view of the obvious lack of Touch ID).

Is this normal, expected? Should I stop using passkeys as my hackintosh is not protecting them?

This Support article doesn't help much, and passkeys apparently are enabled only on latest Touch-ID based Macs. Here it says that 2FA and iCloud must be used, but no mention to non-Touch-ID Macs.

Have you had this behavior? Any tips/solution/advice? I am very puzzled by the fact that my Macmini8,1 declared model offers these... Thanks in advance!

Example of prompt on Safari and Amazon to use my stored passkey

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