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Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

#81
Bitwarden can't import my ssh keys from lastpass export

it say: [1198] [SecureNote] "username id rsa ssh": The field Notes exceeds the maximum encrypted value length of 10000 characters. But this id_rsa has only 1415 symbols

1password has imported csv as well without any issue or alert.

So login from device is not a big deal.

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A compromised Apple developer account login pushing out a compromised Bitwarden mobile app to the Apple App Store that steals everyone's master passphrases.

Valid question. Although how could any product protect against that kind of attack? If the supply chain is compromised, it's pretty much a wrap.

That's an app store issue, but to follow up bitwarden is opensource, so you could verify the checksums and compile it yourself if you really wanted to be dead sure.

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post #70

Hardware keys are better. Phone’s operating system is a huge code base. Also, iPhone’s operating system is a closed source proprietary black box.

How do you link your hardware key to the website? You still have to plug it into a proprietary black box.

If you think your computer security is weak, it will continue to be the weak link even with with a hardware key.

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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Am I the only one who just cannot STAND MFA? Having to get a notification text etc. Like what if I don’t want to give an app capability to notify my phone? What if I want something totally NOT connected to my phone?

I just envision a future where there is some near-circular dependency of passwords/phrases/notifications/authenticators/keys/email verifications etc across different devices and services - the end result is that it is absolute PiTA to log into anything or recover any account if anything is ever lost. Sort of an endless personal bureaucracy for authentication. It’s a future I am personally trying to avoid at all costs

Yubikeys etc seem like something I could potentially get behind, but it still doesn’t seem perfect persay… anyway, maybe I am just a geezer

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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post #85

Am I the only one who just cannot STAND MFA? Having to get a notification text etc. Like what if I don’t want to give an app capability to notify my phone? What if I want something totally NOT connected to my phone? I just envision a future where there is some near-circular dependency of passwords/phrases/notifications/authenticators/keys/email verifications etc across different devices and services - the end result…

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Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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post #47
post #44

Passwordless is going to be great. Though, this is just for unlocking your bitwarden account. Real cross-device passwordless is likely coming in the next year or so. WebAuthn/Passkey is in its 3rd public working draft[1] and once finalized, we'll likely start to see it across sites. Most devices, browsers and managers have added or are adding support for it: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Auth0, Duo, 1Password, etc. If yo…

Passkeys are definitely the future, and I think will eventually eliminate a lot of phishing attempts and other insecurity caused by passwords. I'm hoping that we will eventually see transferable, secure identities that you can use to log in anywhere, rather than having to constantly create account credentials for everything. As a side note, if you want to try out passkeys now and don't want to tie it to your device,…

Heya! I just tried installing Bulwark on my Windows 10 machine. Install went fine, but when I try to run the app, I get the Admin privilege prompt, and then.... nothing. No sign of the program crashing, or any kind of error.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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post #85

Am I the only one who just cannot STAND MFA? Having to get a notification text etc. Like what if I don’t want to give an app capability to notify my phone? What if I want something totally NOT connected to my phone? I just envision a future where there is some near-circular dependency of passwords/phrases/notifications/authenticators/keys/email verifications etc across different devices and services - the end result…

That's why I like TOTP, you can use a phone (i have a dedicated disconnected phone for it) or an rpi, hardware dongle,etc.. but it is phishable

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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post #85

Am I the only one who just cannot STAND MFA? Having to get a notification text etc. Like what if I don’t want to give an app capability to notify my phone? What if I want something totally NOT connected to my phone? I just envision a future where there is some near-circular dependency of passwords/phrases/notifications/authenticators/keys/email verifications etc across different devices and services - the end result…

MFA is not going away, but neither is it going to become what you are describing.

MFA using an SMS is not secure.

If people reliably made good passwords and never reused them, we probably wouldn't need MFA as much.

Unfortunately, we live in a society. Bitwarden will remember your TOTP codes for you across any device you login from. It will even copy the code to you paste buffer during a login.

I enable MFA everywhere i can, even for stupid stuff. Its just not an inconvenience using bitwarden.

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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post #85

Am I the only one who just cannot STAND MFA? Having to get a notification text etc. Like what if I don’t want to give an app capability to notify my phone? What if I want something totally NOT connected to my phone? I just envision a future where there is some near-circular dependency of passwords/phrases/notifications/authenticators/keys/email verifications etc across different devices and services - the end result…

MFA is not going away, but neither is it going to become what you are describing. MFA using an SMS is not secure. If people reliably made good passwords and never reused them, we probably wouldn't need MFA as much. Unfortunately, we live in a society. Bitwarden will remember your TOTP codes for you across any device you login from. It will even copy the code to you paste buffer during a login. I enable MFA everywhere…

> MFA using an SMS is not secure.

Why not? Is it that easy to intercept a SMS or is that just due to poor handling with some providers?

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