Comment by calgoo
5 days ago
One of the bigger issues with passkeys has been that they get locked to one provider (like apple in your case). Now i HAVE to use an Apple device to unlock passwords, same with Google and Android. Its very much all eggs in one basket.
If it was easy to migrate between services, then i would be a lot more open to using passkeys.
Too add to my own comment: I know that its coming, but until i can export to something like. keepass and not a commercial entity then i don't consider it ready.
Many credential managers support migration. See https://whatarepasskeys.info.
It's fairly easy to export/transfer passkeys (I think, I've never actually done it)
Also, many if not all of the sites I've got passkeys setup with support multiple keys, which I sometimes take advantage of. For example I've got a passkey into my Google account in my Apple account ecosystem but I also have a physical Yubikey setup as a Passkey device, in case I were to get locked out of my Apple account
>It's fairly easy to export/transfer passkeys (I think, I've never actually done it)
>I've never actually done it
You can't be serious.
If it's easy, go do it, find out, and come back here to tell us about it.
I don't need to, I'm not bouncing around password vaults with the frequency of a cheap HAM radio. I've skimmed over announcements of the feature becoming available in a product or two
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What is hard about migrating between password managers? At least on MacOS you can just open passwords and export all to another app?
The problem is that they determine the other apps that are supported. There is no "generic" export.
Not true. I just migrated from apple passwords to 1password. Including passkeys. It's pretty seamless.
For a few corporations yes, but not for local only like KeePass or similar. Thats the issue i have with them, if a can set them up as easy as TOTP on KeePass then fine.