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Password manager makers want to let you securely transfer passkeys

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The FIDO Alliance, the organization that’s helping shepherd passkey adoption, announced a draft of new specifications that would let users securely move their passkeys across different password managers.

Passkeys are great — it’s nice to be able to log in to apps and websites without entering a password. But there hasn’t been a standard protocol for transferring your passkeys across password managers. The new specifications, the Credential Exchange Protocol (CXP) and Credential Exchange Format (CXF), are designed to fill that gap.

The FIDO Alliance’s “Credential Provider Special Interest Group,” which includes representatives from 1Password, Apple, Bitwarden, Google, Microsoft, Okta, and more, collaborated on the specifications. The new…

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