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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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[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (31 children)

I don't like that passkeys are portable, this kind of defeats the entire purpose. The way they were sold to me is the following: it's 2 factors in one. The first is the actual device where the key lives, and the second, the user verification, like a pin, face scan, fingerprint etc. If it's synced across the cloud, there's no longer the first factor being the unique key on the unique device.

Granted, passkeys even without the first factor are still magnitudes better in terms of convenience and security compared to passwords, but it just disappoints me a little that there are no good options to save passkeys on my local device only, with no cloud sync.

If anyone knows of a local-only passkey manager app for android, as well as the same as a firefox extension, I'd love to know about it!

[–] soothing_salamander@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Admittedly, for some password managers, the passkeys are stored locally and are not accessible in the cloud unencrypted without the decryption keys that exist on devices you authorize.

This may still not make a difference for you though. For me, I consider passkeys, even stored in the cloud, to be enough for the vast majority, so I appreciate these vendors working to make passkeys more easy for the end user.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree and I still store my passkeys in proton pass, but that's more because there's no real option for storing them locally only. I really like passkeys and they make me optimistic about the future, it's just that I think the way they should work is that each device should have a passkey registered to an account, so that the access can then be revoked if the device was compromised. And it's even convenient in this way with the QR codes that you can use to temporarily share a passkey to then be able to add the new device.

[–] soothing_salamander@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

That's completely fair. Appreciate the discourse friend

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