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Proton Pass now supports passkeys on all devices and plans: Beating Bitwarden to mobile devices (proton.me)

submitted 7 months ago by danie10@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Passkeys are an easy and secure alternative to traditional passwords that can help prevent phishing attacks and make your online experience smoother and safer.

Unfortunately, Big Tech’s rollout of this technology prioritized using passkeys to lock people into their walled gardens over providing universal security for everyone (you have to use their platform, which often does not work across all platforms). And many password managers only support passkeys on specific platforms or provide them with paid plans, meaning you only get to reap passkeys’ security benefits if you can afford them.

They’ve reimagined passkeys, helping them reach their full potential as free, universal, and open-source tech. They have made online privacy and security accessible to everyone, regardless of what device you use or your ability to pay.

I'm still a paying customer of Bitwarden as Proton Pass was up to now still not doing everything, but this may make me re-evaluate using Proton Pass as I'm also a paying customer of Proton Pass. It certainly looks like Proton Pass is advancing at quite a pace, and Proton has already built up a good reputation for private e-mail and an excellent VPN client.

Proton is also the ONLY passkey provider that I've seen allowing you to store, share, and export passkeys just like you can with passwords!

See https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-passkeys

#technology #passkeys #security #ProtonPass #opensource

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[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The real question is why the fuck is this guy passing for two password managers if not more, especially if he isn't even using one?

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was considering Proton Unlimited and moving away from separate SimpleLogin and Bitwarden Premium to get my costs down. Has anyone moved from Bitwarden to Proton Pass? How was the experience?

[–] capital@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I moved FROM Proton when I started looking into using unique addresses for everything via my own domain.

Fastmail + Bitwarden is way cheaper than Proton + SimpleLogin.

I found myself wondering why Proton, which I was already paying for, required an additional cost to implement masked email addresses via SimpleLogin when they own the damn thing.

Fastmail just has all of that baked in for cheaper. Then Bitwarden can create masked addresses from its interface via API when you create logins.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I liked the look of Fastmail but I read that it doesn't work offline which seems to be a massive oversight. I also only really need basic mail but their 2GB limit felt way too low for a paid service.

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[–] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a counterpoint, I'm specifically keeping passwords with a separate service out of concern in having a single point of failure for the majority of my online persona. I do pay for proton unlimited but mostly for VPN, simple login, and email.

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[–] DeepChill@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I’m not 100% clear on the pricing. Do I get this for “free” as part of a premium subscription to Proton Mail/Drive/Calendar or is this a separate subscription?

[–] danie10@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Probably best to see their comparison but free account mainly excludes Integrated 2FA authenticator and only has two vaults, but unlimited logins. I'm on the unlimited account (for VPN and mail) so can't check for sure.

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Has anyone used pass keys? I have been hesitant to try them out. Using them, do they basically keep you logged in all the time to a given site?

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Only for a test, I do not see myself switching to passkeys any time soon, using KeePass is fine in my use case. If there would be some site for which I would need to authenticate every day I would probably create a passkey on device itself (Windows Hello or Google Password manager) since authentication speed increase is undeniable.

Only authentication method changes, there should be no difference after you sign-in, how long sign-in is kept still depends on site owner.

There are various sites to test authentication experience, here's one where you can test it with dummy account and no registration https://webauthn.io/. It is pretty cool, but you need to create a passkey for every site on all devices to fully utilize their potential.

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[–] almightyGreek@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I get "This device does not support passkeys" on Sony Xperia 1 V running android 14

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