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Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more (world.hey.com)
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[–] Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Your vault is encrypted on your device before it's sent to Bitwarden's servers, so even they don't have access to your passwords and passkeys.

More info on how it is encrypted is here:

https://bitwarden.com/help/what-encryption-is-used/

Pretty much every password manager works like this. Having access to your data would be a liability for them.