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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!
1Password has had this for several months.
As others have mentioned, Bitwarden also has this. This really feels like an ad.
I really really like proton pass, was using Google password manager prior but I primarily use Firefox and Firefox's password syncing is just bad. Proton pass has been a surprisingly reliable password manager.
This reads achingly like an advert pretenting to be a social media post. BitWarden works fine for third party pass keys on every site I've used it on, ta - and I can self-host it.
I get "This device does not support passkeys" on Sony Xperia 1 V running android 14
Does it beat Bitwarden though? Bitwardan has supported at least 2 services for me using passkeys ,one of which is google.
I might be misunderstanding this,but it doesn't seem like proton beat anyone to anything.
Edit for info: https://bitwarden.com/passwordless-passkeys/
The point of the post was that Proton Pass is beating Bitwarden right now to having passkeys for mobile (Bitwarden has still not released that), and Proton Pass can actually export passkeys which Bitwarden does not do, so they are improving. I would not say though they are better all round than Bitwarden. I pay for both but am still evaluating the rest of Proton Pass vs Bitwarden especially around tweaks in options. But Proton is showing some innovation and momentum, while Bitwarden is slowing a bit. For those already using Proton they will likely find Proton Pass good enough to use right now.
They're talking about the fact that Bitwarden doesn't support passkeys on mobile
Right,yeah,that's true for mobile indeed.
Sad that these sort of features are paywalled.
Why shouldn’t these features require money?
It’s $10 per YEAR. This is an extremely reasonable price given the importance of the service.
Bitwarden employees need to eat too.
Has anyone used pass keys? I have been hesitant to try them out. Using them, do they basically keep you logged in all the time to a given site?
Only for a test, I do not see myself switching to passkeys any time soon, using KeePass is fine in my use case. If there would be some site for which I would need to authenticate every day I would probably create a passkey on device itself (Windows Hello or Google Password manager) since authentication speed increase is undeniable.
Only authentication method changes, there should be no difference after you sign-in, how long sign-in is kept still depends on site owner.
There are various sites to test authentication experience, here's one where you can test it with dummy account and no registration https://webauthn.io/. It is pretty cool, but you need to create a passkey for every site on all devices to fully utilize their potential.
I don't like passkeys yet because they're implemented poorly on most platforms, IMHO, because they replace two factors with one. Some don't let you also turn on two factor auth at all which is dumb, but the ones that do then often only have options that use your device as a factor either through text or email. So if the passkey is your phone and you add text messages as the 2 factor option, that's still your phone. Or if your passkey is your laptop and you're logged into your email on the laptop, it's just one.
Passkeys are 2FA
Could either you or @[email protected] explain this for me? If all that's required to log in using a passkey is access to a single device/provider (e.g. Proton Pass in this case) how does it replace 2FA?
I believe passkeys are supposed to replace 2FA and passwords. If you have a passkey, you’re not supposed to need 2FA.
I was considering Proton Unlimited and moving away from separate SimpleLogin and Bitwarden Premium to get my costs down. Has anyone moved from Bitwarden to Proton Pass? How was the experience?
Is this an ad?
