I had to do that once with LastPass, I had somehow managed to get a typo in my master password and the confirmation, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t find the typo, when I tried to re-open the vault! The same as with MFA, you should also store the emergency one time passwords that each service provides, in case you lose you Passkey or MFA token. Only 1Password, Bitwarden and Bulwark, AFAIK, provide it in their vaults, which are transferable across platforms.Īpple, Google and Microsoft will allow you to sync across devices in their sphere of influence, but not cross platform - Bitwarden and Bulwark, being open source, means you are less likely to lose access to them, although with Bitwarden, that would mean running your own server, not using their cloud.īut, as you say, if you leave one platform, voluntarily or not, you have to set up new Passkeys on the new platform. On Apple products and Android, they use the secure enclaves provided by the chipsets, on Windows you need TPM and Windows Hello. They are the cryptographically secure part of the transaction and the secret needs to remain secret. Unfortunately, this is how Passkeys have to work, at least at the moment. I was hoping when password managers added support for passkeys, that I would have the ability to export them to some kind of format and back them up. Your passkey is locked to that computer and can only be used by a browser that can access Apple’s Keychain. You could probably disable iCloud Keychain on a Mac and save passkeys to your local copy of Keychain. If you uninstall the browser, you lose your passkeys. But they’re also locked to that computer and that browser. If you don’t log in to the browser, the passkeys will never sync. You can potentially make a passkey in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. So, now you have 2 passkeys for the same site, both in 1Password. If you’re using a browser with the 1Password plugin, 1Password will intercept the request for the public key and generate the private key and send it’s public key to the website. But the problem is WHERE you enroll your passkeys. I may abandon passkeys completely and stick with passwords and 2FA TOTP. But do you really want to store that many passkeys in the cloud in that many locations? Do you want to pay for 2 password managers, just so you can have redundant passkeys? I know it’s unlikely that you’re going to get banned from Google, Apple, 1Password, Bitwarden and every other site all in one day. Passkeys just become a more convenient way to login to a site. But if you leave passwords enabled, you’re now vulnerable. That way you can get in to your account, should you lose access to your passkeys. Then I would lose access to my Passkeys.īecause of this, you probably need to leave some other form of authentication enabled on your accounts, such as a password. They all get locked up by a service and that service could choose to ban me at any time for violating their terms of service. There is absolutely no way to have local passkeys. The same seems to be true for passkeys I store with Google and with Apple in iCloud Keychain. It’s telling me that I will need to create new passkeys for all my sites if I don’t want to use the ones stored in 1Password. When I try to do an export of my 1Password vault, it WILL NOT export my passkeys. They’re in 1Password and they can’t come out of 1Password. That’s when I hit a major snag with Passkeys. To prevent “vendor lock-in,” I saved the passkeys in 1Password. I would love a Passkey redux episode that answers some of my gripes with passkeys. The more I play with Passkeys, the more disenchanted I get with them.
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