Security vendors join forces to make passkeys more portable for everyone | Bitwarden Blog
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FIDO Alliance publishes industry standards for consumers to easily and securely transfer passkeys across platforms and password managers.

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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They should be portable. I don’t know if they should be stored in the cloud though. Ideally you can open a password database in whatever application you want if you have the database and login information. Not allowing this is inconvenient and doesn’t seriously increase security.

Having them not be portable ensures people use them less frequently. If I couldn’t sync mine between my phone and desktop I probably wouldn’t use it. The way I do it isn’t built into my manager (KeepassDX), but I use Syncthing to keep it up to date on both devices. It’d be better if there was an official option for people bad with technology.

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