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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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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You share public keys when registering the passkey on a third party service, but for the portability of the keys to other password managers (what the article is about) the private ones do need to be transferred (that's the whole point of making them portable).

I think the phishing concerns are about attackers using this new portability feature to get a user (via phishing / social engineering) to export/move their passkeys to the attacker's store. The point is that portability shouldn't be so user-friendly / transparent that it becomes exploitable.

That said, I don't know if this new protocol makes things THAT easy to port (probably not?).

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, they made it very secure with the transfer of passwords /s

It felt so strange having a CSV file with all my passwords and 2FA secrets in plain text in my downloads folder..

Imagine if would not have used a encrypted partition, my passwords may still be on that disk…