Proton Pass now supports passkeys on all devices and plans: Beating Bitwarden to mobile devices

Passkeys are an easy and secure alternative to traditional passwords that can help prevent phishing attacks and make your online experience smoother and safer.

Unfortunately, Big Tech’s rollout of this technology prioritized using passkeys to lock people into their walled gardens over providing universal security for everyone (you have to use their platform, which often does not work across all platforms). And many password managers only support passkeys on specific platforms or provide them with paid plans, meaning you only get to reap passkeys’ security benefits if you can afford them.

They’ve reimagined passkeys, helping them reach their full potential as free, universal, and open-source tech. They have made online privacy and security accessible to everyone, regardless of what device you use or your ability to pay.

I'm still a paying customer of Bitwarden as Proton Pass was up to now still not doing everything, but this may make me re-evaluate using Proton Pass as I'm also a paying customer of Proton Pass. It certainly looks like Proton Pass is advancing at quite a pace, and Proton has already built up a good reputation for private e-mail and an excellent VPN client.

Proton is also the ONLY passkey provider that I've seen allowing you to store, share, and export passkeys just like you can with passwords!

See https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-passkeys

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Very interesting. I'm also a paying Bitwarden customer but also like Proton Pass and this development could make me want to move.

Do you have any recommendations for passkeys regarding handling, durability etc.?

There is not much to say yet about passkeys except most are fully locked into their own service. Proton is the first one I've seen with an export option. Thing is there is nowhere to import yet except back into Proton. Only thing I don't see on Proton Pass is Identity that Bitwarden does, but Pass does have aliases.

I actually started paying for ProtonVPN after migrating from ExpressVPN. Then upgraded to Unlimited so I could add my own domain name for email and sync my mails offline.

I'm also contemplating going all in on Proton Pass. Want to test how the form fill works as I've been having some minor issues with Bitwarden not fully filling in credit card info, but it may be to do with the sites too. Still Bitwarden is highly configurable. I'm just interested now that Pass has passkeys and for mobile too.

Yes. Definitely follow up on this. Thanks.

These are software passkeys so they're durable enough ;-) But for hardware I bought a YubiKey a while ago, and it's still going strong. I bought one that was USB as well as NFC.

Yes, it became clear to me afterwards about the different kinds of passkeys. Thanks anyway.

As I said in the past - passwords are dead!