Password manager makers want to let you securely transfer passkeys
Passkeys are great — it’s nice to be able to log in to apps and websites without entering a password. But there hasn't been a standard protocol for transferring your passkeys across password managers. The new specifications, the Credential Exchange Protocol (CXP) and Credential Exchange Format (CXF), are designed to fill that gap.
Passkeys: The successor to passwords is about to get much simpler
Passkeys, the user-friendly, passwordless login procedure touted as the successor to the passwords we still manually type in today, is getting a long-awaited feature. Anyone who has set up a passkey on one device can now easily move it (in encrypted form) between different devices,
Passkeys Will Soon Become Easier to Transfer Between Password Managers
The new standard will work with devices from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung (among others) and password manager providers such as 1Password and Bitwarden.
You'll soon be able to safely and easily move your passkeys between password managers
By now, most people know passkeys offer a better way to protect their online credentials than passwords. Nearly every tech company of note, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, supports the protocol.
Passkeys take yet another big step towards killing off passwords
One of the drawbacks to passkeys is that currently there's no way to import or export them between devices. The FIDO Alliance wants to change that.
Future Passkeys will be able to be shared across platforms & password vaults
The FIDO Alliance standards body has published specifications that should lead to passkeys being able to get shared ...
FIDO Alliance Working on Making Passkeys Portable Across Platforms
The FIDO Alliance is developing new specifications to enable secure transfer of passkeys between different password managers ...
Windows 11’s new passkey design includes cloud syncing and 1Password integration
Microsoft is greatly improving its support of passkeys inside Windows 11 soon. A redesigned Windows Hello experience will ...
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Passkey News: FIDO Unveils New Specifications, Amazon Announces 175 Million Users
FIDO Alliance has published new specifications for securely moving passkeys across providers, as Amazon announced 175 million passkey users.
New passkey specifications will let users import and export them
Passkeys were introduced two years ago, and they replace traditional passwords with more secure authentication using a ...
FIDO Alliance is Standardizing Passkey Portability
As expected, the FIDO Alliance is standardizing how password and credential managers can make passkeys portable across ...
Passkeys in Windows 11 are about to get safer and easier to use
Microsoft has announced that big changes are coming to its passkey experience, including third-party integration and account ...
Microsoft joins Google in push for password-less future with updated passkeys support
Microsoft has has introduced new features to Windows 11, simplifying passkey usage across devices, following similar efforts ...
The days of exporting passwords as CSVs are over, thanks to CXF files for passkeys
It doesn't matter how secure your passwords are when you export them as a CSV file. That's the point where they can be ...