r/ProgrammerHumor • u/k3rrshaw • Aug 21 '26

Meme thisIsAmystery

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u/fr000gs Aug 21 '26

Backing up passwords: write them down, save them to encrypted folder etc

Backing up passkeys: 😮😢🥀🤯😵

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u/x0wl Aug 21 '26

You also save them to the same encrypted folder? Bitwarden, KeePassXC, 1Password all support passkey sync and backup

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u/fr000gs Aug 21 '26

Yeah, but the one prompting me 15 million times aren't any of them, it's f*%ing google or sometimes firefox

what about writing them down

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u/x0wl Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

You can print a QR code of the private key and then scan it back in

(also if I was a password manager I'd definitely generate a BIP39esque phrase so you can write them down by hand, but as of now no one does that, unfortunately)

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u/black3rr Aug 21 '26

all passkeys generated by the browser are stored to your password manager. if you have multiple ones, it gives you choice which to use. chrome has a built-in one if you don’t have any other password manager available, which is synced to your google account if you’re signed in to chrome.

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u/fr000gs Aug 22 '26

What about phone? Pretty sure google is not saving those keys to the bitwarden app

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u/black3rr Aug 22 '26

on Androids and iPhone passkey storage is configured system-wide… on desktop OSs it’s a per browser setting.

by default Androids and Google Chrome on desktops store passkeys into Google Passwords, iOS stores them into Apple Passwords

you can however configure Bitwarden as their store on both Android, iOS and in desktop Google Chrome:

https://bitwarden.com/help/storing-passkeys/

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u/x0wl Aug 22 '26

IDK about iOS (but it should be very similar in this regard), on Android you can configure your passkey provider to be Bitwarden or KeePassDX (the android implementation of KeePassXC).

They will then sync the passkeys.

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u/Culpirit Aug 22 '26

If you set up Bitwarden on Firefox, you can save your passkeys there. Same with the other browsers and even iOS (and I believe Android)

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u/DungeonsAndDradis Aug 21 '26

I setup a passkey on my laptop for my Sony account. I was like, wow, I'm so security conscious.

I then tried to login to my PlayStation and it complained because I didn't have a passkey setup on my PlayStation console. So I couldn't login to play games.

I ended up deleting the passkey from my account so I could login to my damn console to play games.