Let’s start with a smartphone. A user creates an account with a passkey for a service, that passkey gets stored on their smartphone, and they can use biometrics to sign in from then on. The private key is stored on the smartphone. Great.

But then how do you sign into that same service from a different device?

If it’s by using a password manager, some third party piece of software, How do you sign in on a device where you’re not allowed to install third party software?

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    2 months ago

    Some password managers support passkeys, such as one password and proton pass, which will allow you to use multiple different devices. Personally, I am waiting for key pass to have proper support before starting to migrate to them.

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      1 month ago

      Is keepass actually going to have support for passphrases? The author works in archaic ways and I have a feeling he’s never going to truly support it.

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            1 month ago

            Okay, I see I have never used a regular one. I think I read to use XC by default. Somewhere. And so that’s the one I’ve always used. I’ve never even downloaded the original one.