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Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by mey » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 7:48 PM UTC

bmurphy1976 wrote: post #19

lucideer wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitwarden's UI is far from perfect but I find it better than any competitors I've tried (LP & 1Pass). 1Password feels cleaner, more integrated & polished but in practice the UX is inferior to BW - most regular actions take more clicks & discoverability is lower. And the password generator is even worse than LP's. Lastpass UI is well known to be poor - Bitwarden's is far less worse by every metric. Bitwarden's not per…

I can't speak for the other password managers, but I find Bitwarden's organization management to be pretty terrible. As a personal password manager it's pretty good, but as an organization password manager, not so much.

Having to manually type a folder path to create nested folders is horribly archaic.

/ Paying Bitwarden user

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by deutschepost » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 7:49 PM UTC

One of the nicest thing about bitwarden is the ability to selfhost it. I don't think there is anything like it.

1password seems to have the best UX in the field. But you always have to trust some company with the keys to your digital life.

Self hosting password managers is not as big of a deal as it should be.

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by Ajedi32 » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 7:51 PM UTC

Spunkie wrote: post #15

One of the benefits we saw moving from lastpass to bitwarden is it allow us to much more easily reduce duplicate entries for the same site/account. So it's pretty annoying to see in the docs for this passkey feature that they just expect you to make a duplicate bitwarden entry for every additional passkey you need to add to an account. Especially when it's standard to register a backup key for any service that uses p…

What would be the purpose of having multiple passkeys for the same account stored in the same BitWarden vault? You're going to have a backup key and store it in the exact same place as the primary key?

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by dhd415 » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 7:53 PM UTC

sigio wrote: post #9

Looks like the new version isn't approved for the firefox addons repository just yet... So haven't been able to try it out, but very happy with bitwarden (self-hosting a server using vaultwarden)

Doesn't appear to be available yet for Chrome in the Chrome Web Store or for Android in the Google Play Store, either. :(

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by RamRodification » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 7:54 PM UTC

mey wrote: post #21

bmurphy1976 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't speak for the other password managers, but I find Bitwarden's organization management to be pretty terrible. As a personal password manager it's pretty good, but as an organization password manager, not so much.

Having to manually type a folder path to create nested folders is horribly archaic. / Paying Bitwarden user

I think they fixed that. Can't verify at the moment.

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by quaffapint » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 7:56 PM UTC

So it's browser extension only? I can't use the android app to login with a passkey I stored from my desktop browser? Hopefully they'll add that support soon enough, because password access on my mobile is a big pain point.

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by tssva » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 7:57 PM UTC

throwaway447 wrote: post #18

lucideer wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitwarden's UI is far from perfect but I find it better than any competitors I've tried (LP & 1Pass). 1Password feels cleaner, more integrated & polished but in practice the UX is inferior to BW - most regular actions take more clicks & discoverability is lower. And the password generator is even worse than LP's. Lastpass UI is well known to be poor - Bitwarden's is far less worse by every metric. Bitwarden's not per…

Nothing beats www.enpass.io but they charge now. I still ran the free version (free version not available for download anymore).

I find Enpass to be great for personal use at least. I've never tried it for business use. Luckily I paid for it when the Android app was $6.95 and got you lifetime usage on all platforms. They recently added passkey support.

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by aborsy » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 7:59 PM UTC

Does the code in Vaultwarden mimic the code in the self hosted version of Bitwarden?

Or a code audit in Bitwarden has no bearing on vaultwarden?

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by throwaway447 » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 8:00 PM UTC

tssva wrote: post #27

throwaway447 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing beats www.enpass.io but they charge now. I still ran the free version (free version not available for download anymore).

I find Enpass to be great for personal use at least. I've never tried it for business use. Luckily I paid for it when the Android app was $6.95 and got you lifetime usage on all platforms. They recently added passkey support.

I never installed it on Android. I use it only on my computer. But I use it also a lot as an organizer since it is so flexible. Has also my ID scans, Degree scans etc.

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by figmert » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 8:02 PM UTC

aborsy wrote: post #28

Does the code in Vaultwarden mimic the code in the self hosted version of Bitwarden? Or a code audit in Bitwarden has no bearing on vaultwarden?

Vaultwarden is unaffiliated with Bitwarden. Vaultwarden is a hobbyist re-implementation of the Bitwarden server API. Anything the frontends (extensions, web ui, apps, etc) need to function properly, must would need to be re-implemented in Vaultwarden.