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Bitwarden, Dashlane, 1Password and others have joined together to make passkeys portable (bitwarden.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looks like a huge amount of security vendors are working to have a secure and open standard for passkey portability between platforms.

It is always good to see major collaboration in the security space like this considering the harsh opinions that users of some of these vendors have toward many of the others. I just wish apps and sites would stop making me login with username and password if passkeys are meant to replace that lol.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, nothing is stopping you to keep passkeys only in one place, why force others to do what you like? Now we have options and less friction to switch to a competitor. Which results in more competition and that results in better products. Well theoretically..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I just don't think synced passkeys should be the default for example iOS.

What Microsoft is doing with device-bound passkeys using Windows Hello is imo great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So microsoft does not require that you backup your passkeys? I thought that was the norm in all OS 😅

I think that passkeys are backed up in cloud by default isn’t that bad for the average person, since they are likely not understanding passkeys (at least right now) and don’t get that they loose access to accounts, if they disable oldscool Passwords only use one passkey on one device for that account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You usually don't lose access though. Passkeys rarely replace passwords so you could still use your password or reset it if you don't remember it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That is, because we are in transition phase, the goal is that passkey replace the less secure method, else you gain only a very little more security than only Password .