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guillaume0
2 years agoNew Contributor
Use of PRF extension
Hi,
I've tried out the beta to unlock 1Password with a passkey, and it seems to work well, but I'm surprised that passkeys only serve the purpose of authentication. According to the white paper, t...
MaKolarik
2 years agoNew Contributor
I've just read the details on the Bitwarden release and was about to post the same thing - very glad to see I'm not the only one seeing the advantages in that model and guillaume0 already summarized it very well.
I'll add just one more thing: it seems the current passkey implementation is less secure than a master key on some platforms because there's not a really safe place for storing the device key (Windows, Linux, web). With encryption keys that are really based on the passkey, nothing needs to be stored directly on the device.