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danielrosehill
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

Saving biometric factors in 1 Password?

Hi everyone!

New convert to 1 Password on Linux after many years of using Bitwarden. Absolutely love it. Great tool!

I recently picked up a USB fingerprint scanner and if it were in any way possible would love to be able to capture and securely store the biometric data in my vault.

Any support for this feature or other biometric factors yet? Or if not, is it on the feature map?

Many thanks,

Daniel

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    danielrosehill
    Occasional Contributor
    2 years ago

    FrankyO1P

    Sorry for the super delayed response. I need to figure out a better way to keep on top of forum notifications.

    Happy to describe what I'm looking for!

    And thanks for the link .. I got the SSH integration & system integration set up nicely.

    I picked up (one of the few) Fedora and Linux friendly USB fingerprint scanners this summer.

    What I was envisioning/hoping for: using it as a second factor/passkey in place of fishing for a 2FA code.

    I would (personally) be very happy to have 1 Password retain a (locally encrypted whatever) copy of my fingerprints. I know that this would be total anathema to many privacy advocates but .. hey, we all make our own choices. You guys know everything else about me :-)

    Perhaps sometime in the not too distant future we will figure out a way to verify a match as a passkey. But yes you make a good point ... right now, I'm not sure it would help.

    One functionality that is less futuristic, perhaps, is allowing 1 Password to act as an agent for biometric unlocking on the local/desktop OS. This is already a "real thing" and obviates the very valid concerns about not wishing to share fingerprints with random websites.

    Just some loose thoughts and thank you for responding!