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Re:The Cryptography Behind Passkeys by lolinder on Thursday May 15, 2025 @09:20AM (#43994766)
What do passkeys synced over Bitwarden get you that a username + random password does not?
Re:The Cryptography Behind Passkeys by izacus on Thursday May 15, 2025 @10:32AM (#43995509)
Same thing SSH keys give you what username + random password does not. Convenience.
Re:The Cryptography Behind Passkeys by lolinder on Thursday May 15, 2025 @11:54AM (#43996333)
But how much more convenient is it really? Filling out the login form with Bitwarden is a single hotkey: Ctrl+Alt+L. That's such a light burden that I'm having a hard time seeing the value proposition for users who are already on a password manager.

I can totally see the value for companies who serve users that don't use password managers—if you can get those people onto passkeys that's a clear security win.

Re:The Cryptography Behind Passkeys by horse666 on Thursday May 15, 2025 @04:20PM (#43998918)
Phishing protection? Unlike passwords, passkeys are bound to a domain.
Re:The Cryptography Behind Passkeys by lolinder on Thursday May 15, 2025 @06:45PM (#44000117)
My passwords are bound to a domain and Bitwarden will refuse to autofill if the domain doesn't match. I can copy the password manually if I care to, but that's true in every passkey implementation that I've seen as well: they're never the only login option, you can always log in with a password too.
Re:The Cryptography Behind Passkeys by horse666 on Friday May 16, 2025 @03:33AM (#44002697)
I don’t understand what you mean, sorry. If you are manually copying a password, then you are not using passkeys? There is nothing to copy/accidentally leak with passkeys.

I guess it will be a while before passkeys are the _only_ option that websites accept

Re:The Cryptography Behind Passkeys by lolinder on Saturday May 17, 2025 @09:37AM (#44014241)
I'm saying that as long as websites use the username/password model alongside passkeys with no way to turn off the former, you're just as at risk of phishing with passkeys as I am with domain-bound autofill.

Either one of us would have to choose to manually copy our logins into a phishing form in order to get phished.