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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

people will pick the corporate options that are shoved on their faces, not the sensible open source user-respecting ones.

vendor lockin will happen if we adopt passkeys as they are right now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bitwarden just announced a consortium with Apple, Google, 1Password, etc to create a secure import/export format for credentials; spurred by the need for passkeys to be portable between password managers (but also works for passwords/other credential types)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm definitely holding off on passkeys until that project is finished. I also don't want vendor lock in and while that seems like the solution, it seems like they just started working on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Import export is not the same as interoperability

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

The interoperability already exists in the protocol webauthn, part of FIDO2 which has been around for almost a decade. Interoperability is not remotely an issue with passkeys. Imported/export is/was and also already has a solution in the works.

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

So I can use the same passkey from say, bitwarden and windows hello? Why do you even need import export then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yes you can use a passkey set up on any given service to authenticate to a service that supports passkeys. You’d need import/export to move a given passkey from bitwarden to Windows.