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Passkeys are an easy and secure alternative to traditional passwords that can help prevent phishing attacks and make your online experience smoother and safer.

Unfortunately, Big Tech’s rollout of this technology prioritized using passkeys to lock people into their walled gardens over providing universal security for everyone (you have to use their platform, which often does not work across all platforms). And many password managers only support passkeys on specific platforms or provide them with paid plans, meaning you only get to reap passkeys’ security benefits if you can afford them.

They’ve reimagined passkeys, helping them reach their full potential as free, universal, and open-source tech. They have made online privacy and security accessible to everyone, regardless of what device you use or your ability to pay.

I'm still a paying customer of Bitwarden as Proton Pass was up to now still not doing everything, but this may make me re-evaluate using Proton Pass as I'm also a paying customer of Proton Pass. It certainly looks like Proton Pass is advancing at quite a pace, and Proton has already built up a good reputation for private e-mail and an excellent VPN client.

Proton is also the ONLY passkey provider that I've seen allowing you to store, share, and export passkeys just like you can with passwords!

See https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-passkeys

#technology #passkeys #security #ProtonPass #opensource

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They will have to rip Bitwarden (soon Vaultwarden) from my cold dead hands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

When are they changing their name? I didn’t even know

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

They aren't. Vaultwarden is the selfhosted version.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago

True, it is good, but they need to speed up on passkeys for mobile as many do use mobile devices and what's the point of having passkeys on desktop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The real question is why the fuck is this guy passing for two password managers if not more, especially if he isn't even using one?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Everyone should downvote ads type post if you want to keep the community clean.

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