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lodaka
Frequent Contributor
2 years ago

Passkey and 1Password

I noticed that you can only have ONE passkey at a time in 1Password. Why is this? The reason why I ask is... due to Google's strange implementation of passkeys, Google treats both passkey and 2FA ...
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lodaka
Frequent Contributor
2 years ago

Great... I don't want to belabour this point too much, but here is one little quirk that I found out during my attempt to understand why Google does this:

  • If I set up a passkey in Google using 1Password, 1Password generates an entry. Perfect.
  • Then I turn on 2FA in Google and then again use 1Password, then 1Password replaces the previous one with another passkey (presumably, this time as a 2FA "security key").
  • Then I go into the "Passkey" section of Google, which shows both keys "1Password" and "1Password 2", and then I remove the first passkey from Google.
  • Then, now Google thinks that I have set up a passkey and a security key for 2FA. For instance, when I log in, I can use either the passkey method OR the password. When I choose the password method, Google asks for a security key as 2FA... and it works then too. How wonderfully peculiar.

Yes, standardization (and time) might be needed. Thanks.

EDIT: Part of the reason for doing the above might be... that, even with a passkey, Google still lets you login using a password only. By doing the above, there is no way to login without having a passkey, i.e. the weakest link argument.