Password manager makers want to let you securely transfer passkeys

The FIDO Alliance, the enactment that’s helping shepherd passkey adoption, announced a draught of caller specifications that would fto users securely determination their passkeys crossed antithetic password managers.

Passkeys are large — it’s bully to beryllium capable to log successful to apps and websites without entering a password. But determination hasn't been a modular protocol for transferring your passkeys crossed password managers. The caller specifications, the Credential Exchange Protocol (CXP) and Credential Exchange Format (CXF), are designed to capable that gap.

The FIDO Alliance’s “Credential Provider Special Interest Group,” which includes representatives from 1Password, Apple, Bitwarden, Google, Microsoft, Okta, and more, collaborated connected the specifications. The caller specifications are inactive successful draught truthful that radical tin reappraisal and supply comments — they’re not adopted by password managers conscionable yet.

But companies similar 1Password and Dashlane person already announced that they volition enactment them.

“It is captious that users tin take the credential absorption level they prefer, and power credential providers securely and without burden,” the FIDO Alliance wrote successful its property release. “Until now, determination has been nary modular for the unafraid question of credentials, and often the question of passwords oregon different credentials has been done successful the clear.”

Amazon besides had immoderate passkey quality today, announcing that “more than 175 cardinal customers” person turned connected passkeys for their accounts.