Bitwarden begins adding passkey support to its password manager
www.theverge.com
Full mobile support is coming later.
  • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Am I missing something? Bitwarden already has support for authentication via biometrics or Windows Hello. How is this different from that?

    • janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      English
      4·
      8 months ago

      My naive understanding would be: a passkey replaces a password for an individual login; a biometric authentication replaces a password for the vault that stores individual login passwords.

      • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        so basically: right now, I have a master password, and I can set up Bitwarden to bypass the master password with biometrics. With passkey set up, I will no longer have a master password, and biometric will be the only login method?

        • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          It is not about logging in to BitWarden via PassKey, but logging in via BitWarden to other services.

          Confusing, but what it means is you not storing password in a manager, but a cryptographic private key.