“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.

“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.

  • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    158·
    1 day ago

    Best password manager is offline password manager.

    KeepassXC makes a file with the passwords that is encrypted, sharing this file with a server is more secure than letting the server manage your passwords

    • hikaru755@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      17 hours ago

      This is not at all relevant to the comment you’re responding to. Your choice of password manager doesn’t change that whatever system you’re authenticating against still needs to have at least a hash of your password. That’s what passkeys are improving on here

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      1 day ago

      I agree, and that’s my method as well. Although I do not ever share the file with a server either. I only transfer it from device to device with flash drives or syncthing.

      • a baby duck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 minutes ago

        How do you handle merging between devices? Do you manually transfer/sync every time you add a new password?

        Not trying to sell you on putting it in cloud storage or anything, but one really nice benefit to doing so is automatic merging through clients like Keepass2Android. If I add a new site to my phone and it doesn’t already have the latest copy of my vault, it’ll fetch and merge that first.