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

submitted 1 day ago by soothing_salamander@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 15 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

In one sentence, you say, "just use a password manager", on the next, "not really an improvement if you need extra software". I'm not sure what argument you're having, but neither one really addresses what this article is about.

This keeps the passkeys in the password manager (I use dashlane, it rocks, and synchronises the passkeys just like the passwords), but this new protocol allows you to change and export the passkeys to other password managers, preventing vendor lock in and allowing for transfer to another password manager.

Hope this clarifies things! And everyone should use a password manager of some kind; we should expect whatever site we're using to be hacked, and the only way to be safe is to have a unique password per site.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

password managers are optional though

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Jesus fucking christ this is like listening to Jason from The Good Place try to argue a point about encryption.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -5 points 12 hours ago

just waiting for it to happen. many articles glowing it up, but only corporations proceeding with vendor lockin.