Support passkeys
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Another vote. This is really interesting technology.
Today Google announced that you can now log into your Google account with passkeys on all major platforms, including MacOS/Safari. Here is the announcement. I opened up Safari and went through the process to create a passkey and it worked immediately and was incredibly easy to do.
I view this as a sea-change moment in the deployment of passkeys, and suggest that Orion implement support for passkeys in its password manager. More and more orgs will start to implement passkeys now that Google has done so.
No more passwords is amazing!
You just create multiple passkeys, held in each "bucket". I could have multiple passkeys for my google account stored in iCloud keychain, 1Password (when they implement it), and my Orion keychain (when/if implemented). Passkeys are an industry standard that are coming.
I should note that, from a discussion by Ricky Mondello, there are some plans for interoperability and import/export, which should alleviate the vendor lock-in factor:
Adding this link for discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854216
I have an Apple passkey set up with GitHub...
In Safari it's directly integrated, while in other browsers (even other operating systems) I get the option to display a QR code and approve the sign-in on my iPhone. Here's what that looks like in Arc:
In Orion I do not get the QR-code option at all.
As I don't have a physical security key to insert, I'm unable to sign in to GitHub at all from Orion, even though it works fine from Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave, and Arc.
It would be really nice if Orion supported this to the extent all other non-Safari browsers seem to.
I would like to see this rolled out too. I changed my Google account to use a passkey and would like to be able to use that key to sign in on Orion they same way I do in Safari.
Vlad The passkey I use in Google is in my iCloud keychain. So the ideal for me would be that Orion hooks into passkeys from iCloud keychain or 1password's. But I'd be okay with Orion having its own passkey store too.
From my perspective it's no big deal to have to create an Orion specific passkey for each service where I use one.
Now that 1Password is officially supported, is it possible to implement this, at least for 3rd party password managers, in Orion?
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HELP!
Somehow I was able to set up a Passkey on AWS with Orion on desktop (sorry, I didn't take screenshots), but now I cannot log in anywhere as Orion goes into an infinite loop and Chrome/Safari both do not find a Passkey on iCloud…
From Safari:
and
So it seems like Orion has set up a Passkey but I don't know where it was stored, but it seems to have not synced on iCloud. I do use 1Password, but I don't seem to be able to find the Passkey there either…
Thanks for the help…
1Password just open sourced their library for WebAuthn clients to support passkeys. I think a browser like Orion would be considered a WebAuthn client, right? Might be useful.
https://blog.1password.com/passkey-crates/
https://github.com/1Password/passkey-rs