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Anonymous
June 5, 2023
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Passkeys with Chrome

  • June 5, 2023
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I just got the email notification that we can test passkeys with the newest beta browser plugin. I couldn't resist and test this immediately.

I created an additional passkeys for my Google account to be stored in 1Password. Saving this to 1Password worked, and logging in with this also seemed to work. It's not easy to detect if I used the built in passkeys support or the 1Password passkeys support, but I'm reasonably sure I actually logged in with 1Password's passkey.

The same with my private Microsoft account: Created an additional passkey for it and saving it in 1Password. Logging in with it also worked fine.

Then I went to my Android smartphone and tried logging in to the Microsoft account in chrome - anything except push notification and password isn't offered, so I assume passkeys is only supported for the desktop currently.

Then I went to a Windows 11 desktop (it's a vm, accessed it with rdp, so without Windows Hello!) where I never used passkeys before. I tried logging in to the Microsoft account with Chrome. Lo and behold, it pulled the cloud-synced passkey from 1Password! This worked!

Then I tried to login to my Google account on that machine. This wasn't successful. Google asked for my password and didn't offer any other option except sending the usual push notification to the smartphone.
After I successfully logged in with that, Google offered activating passkeys. I started the workflow, however it wanted to create a new Passkey and the 1Password browser plugin offered saving this to 1Password. Since I already had a passkey for this account in 1Password, I stopped and didn't save another one - I guess it's supposed to have only 1 passkey for the same service in 1Password (in this case: my Google account).

So this was half successful: unable to pull an existing passkeys from 1Password for use with Google, but successful in recognizing the passkeys generating and storing workflow. Might have to do with the rdp connection and missing Windows Hello. Unfortunately, I don't currently have a second physical desktop machine to test a cloud-synced passkey on a local machine without rdp.

1Password Version: 8.10.7
Extension Version: 2.12.4
OS Version: Windows 11
Browser:_ Chrome

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benmattison
benmattison
June 6, 2023

@OlivierP Thanks! Yes, I had just installed the beta last night/today and it is 2.12.0.

I've tested with Google and Home Depot, by the way. In all cases, 1Password shows a little passkey icon for the account but the web site is going through its normal login process. Then once I'm logged in, it sometimes asks me if I want to create a passkey. But it doesn't see the one I already have.

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OlivierP
June 6, 2023

Something is weird here... might be on 1P side or on the websites' side.
Passkey support is fresh so ... it might happen.
Maybe a member of the 1P team could help

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Anonymous
June 6, 2023

It looks like Google does not "see" the browser/computer as an eligible device for passkey login, unless it already has been used in that same session. I have been prompted to ADD (again) passkey support in some sporadic cases, also.

I also tried with PayPal but I never got prompted to activate a Passkey, nor I found anything about that in my account settings.

prime
prime
June 6, 2023

I thought passkey was going to replace passwords, why do I have both for Google?

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OlivierP
June 6, 2023

You'll still see both on the majority of website for some time:
Passkeys are "kind of" a software version of physical security keys.
Physical things can be lost, broken, stolen... so having another way to login is necessary (magic link for a modern one).
So, password / account verification are still there for those cases.
With 1Password, you don't really need them (if you have passkeys) but it does not hurt.

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Anonymous
June 6, 2023

I also couldn't get Chrome to give me the option to log in with a Passkey if I hadn't created the passkey in that particular instance of Chrome. The fix I found (through another post here) is to copy/paste "chrome://flags/#enable-debug-for-secure-payment-confirmation" into the address bar of Chrome, and then disable the feature that comes up.

loggor
loggor
June 6, 2023

I tried adding a passkey at Zoho, but the screen there freezes and nothing happens. On Adobe worked fine, also tried to log in with incognito and it worked. Will try with mobile later.

PS: I'm using Brave

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Anonymous
June 8, 2023

Is it safe to edit and remove the multiple URLs that it added when adding a Passkey into an existing Saved Login?

loggor
loggor
June 30, 2023

Just wanted to share this. You can configure passkeys for MFA on NordVPN. Could someone from the 1Password team add it to the passkey directory? @1P_Dave

prime
prime
June 30, 2023

Fastmail let’s you use passkey as 2FA

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