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Yes, WebAuthn is an open standard, but it seems that Passkeys can only be synced using Google password manager and I don't see any API that would allow the user to use a different password manager as is the case with the auto fill API.



Ah, that's interesting. So if I use Apple keys to log in to sites, I can never log in to them with my Android phone? That's unfortunate, though I don't see this being sustainable for too long, I imagine (and hope) they'll open it up to alternate authenticators soon.


Based on the way implementers at those companies have talked about it, I don't think that's the desired long-term state of affairs. One thing Adam Langley mentioned in https://www.buzzsprout.com/1822302/11122508-passkeys-feat-ad... was that the BLE handshake identifies the cloud service to use because they need to support corporations using their own services for all of their devices. Hopefully there'll be enough demand for that to ensure it's fully implemented soon.




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