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The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over (www.wired.com)

submitted 2 months ago by GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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“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.

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[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.world 15 points 2 months 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.zip 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Technically yes I don't have to use a desktop or laptop very often and do most of my computing from my mobile phone running lineage OS obviously and so what I do is if I add a password once every quarter at least I back it up to a flash drive so that if nothing else I will only lose a few months worth of data. I also don't go signing up for accounts and services all that often since I am particularly interested in keeping my privacy. So very few modifications occur with my passwords in three months. If I absolutely must get a new password onto my laptop immediately, then I will go ahead and plug in my flash drive and manually synchronize whenever that is required as well.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do that too, I have my own server in my basement for storage

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Look at us. A bunch of people who don't trust society. LOL.