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Passkeys and Modern Authentication

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184 points Bogdanp | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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shmerl ◴[02 Sep 25 18:58 UTC] No.45107506[source]▶
> One slightly more concerning issue today is that there is effectively no way to export private keys between authentication password managers

Not being able to use the passkey manager at all is a bigger concern. For example Keepassxc works with some sites but not with others. It's super annoying and way worse than situation with passwords.

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1. ewoodrich ◴[02 Sep 25 19:58 UTC] No.45108245[source]▶
I use Bitwarden and have never had issues saving or using passkeys with any site I can recall via the Chrome extension.
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2. shmerl ◴[02 Sep 25 23:46 UTC] No.45110586[source]▶
Well, see here: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10374

I'm pretty sure a lot of this stuff are arbitrary decisions that sites make when they implement passkey support and you never know where it will work. Also some sites likely don't care about fixing it since they think they deliberately are "improving security" or they just don't care. So I'd say it's an ugly mess. I wish it would work though.