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Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by selicos on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:39PM (#49010504)
A password manager let's me use my service specific credential from any device, securely and decentralized.

Passkeys lock into a specific device and seem easy until you need to use another device.

But instead of being a credential you own and control, across what could even be a local password manager, it's one password to everything. Maybe it is more secure than a regular password in some cases but it largely seems like a worse fix than existing tools for a problem that has better solutions.

Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by eigenspace on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:06PM (#49010947)
Passkeys do *not* do that. I use 1Password to manage my passkeys and they are all synced across all my authenticated devices where I installed 1Password.
Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by preisschild on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:27PM (#49011244)
You can choose either if your password manager supporte Passkeys
Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by eigenspace on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:56PM (#49012505)
Of course. I was just pointing out that their claim about the lack of portability across devices was untrue.
Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by VertanaNinjai on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @04:26PM (#49012933)
Perhaps they should’ve said platforms. Because if you wanted to migrate those passkeys off your password manager and into a different platform like Apple Pass or Google how is that accomplished?
Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by tzs on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:29PM (#49013718)
There's a protocol, FIDO Credential Exchange Protocol (CXP) which is currently at proposed standard status. It is supported by Apple and Google and some third party password managers (1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane). (1Password is kind of annoying though as its CXP export only supports exporting everything. There is no way as far as I can tell to export just a single item yet).

Once 1Password supports proper single export when I make a new passkey I'll store it there and later export it to Apple.

Meanwhile I simply make two passkeys. I've only run into I think two sites that supported passkeys but would not let me make two.

On most sites making a second passkey is as simply as going to your security settings, finding the passkey settings there, hitting the "add another passkey" link, and pointing your phone at the QR code it shows, and then on those phone choosing the password manager that you did not use for the first passkey.

Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by selicos on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:35PM (#49187017)
On my PC I don't have a manager set up. The browser has the passkey saved, if I accidentally set one up by mistake, but it's not accessible on my other devices.

How do I log in to my account if I don't have the specific device the account exists on?

Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by xg15 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:43AM (#49017735)
How do you move your passkey from Apple's keychain into the password manager?
Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by juanpicardo on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:51AM (#49019115)
in the ios password app you can tap on the button to export data to other app. it will show you the list of installed apps that can import them. works with passwords and passkeys.

I moved all of them from my iphone to a selfhosted bitwarden in two minutes.

Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by xg15 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:07AM (#49019221)
Ok, good to know that.

I'm surprised selfhosted services would be allowed in that list. Isn't there the "risk" that you can then extract the raw key from your selfhosted instance?

Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by QGQBGdeZREunxLe on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:21PM (#49012064)
1password and KeypassXC both support passkey syncing across devices and operating systems.
Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by pibaker on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @04:55PM (#49013301)
Until service providers ban them for being insecure — "if you can send your passkey to any other device, you can also send it to a phisher."
Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by QGQBGdeZREunxLe on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @04:59PM (#49013345)
Passkeys have preventive measures for phishing.

https://bitwarden.com/resources/passkeys-are-phishing-resist...

Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by voxic11 on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:19PM (#49011117)
I put my passkeys in my password manager and it works fine.
Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by mpalmer on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:53PM (#49012460)

    it's one password to everything
You are entirely mistaken. Passkeys involve a third party storing a public key on their infrastructure, while you hold the private half of the key, somewhere.

Passkeys are never reused. Even for the same person, they are always unique across websites, and across devices.

Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by selicos on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:36PM (#49187047)
and to unlock that passkey on my PC uses... my user account password. So now every passkey on my device has a single password.

and I can't use this on any other device by default. My passkey is locked within the browser used to set it up.

Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by yandie on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:27PM (#49011254)
I keep all my passkeys in 1 password. So magical
Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by arianvanp on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:13PM (#49014178)
You're arguing against a straw man.

All password managers support passkeys.

Both apple and google allow exporting your existing passkeys to third party password managers too.

Also each website gets it's own unique public key with passkeys. It isn't a single credential

You're literally arguing a strawman

Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by selicos on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:40PM (#49187096)
I don't have a password manager. All the passkeys I've been asked to set up are locked within this one browser on this one device.

By single credential, all the passkeys on this browser use my windows user password which is effectively a single key.