(In reply to Brandon Jewett-Hall from comment #15) > ... it would be a shame if the passkey implementation were blocked on > implementing cross-device synchronization.
I'd disagree. Cross-device synchronization of passkeys is crucial. Otherwise one would have to create a passkey for each device running Thunderbird, and store it locally. That could be e.g. desktop computer, laptop, mobile phone, etc. It would get confusing pretty quickly, with no way to backup all those passkeys needed. There is no need for implementing cross-device synchronization in Thunderbird though, meaning that Thunderbird itself would not have to handle the sync. All that's needed for Thunderbird is to inter-work with a password manager which can store passkeys, e.g. Bitwarden. Firefox already does this, and it just works fine. So Thunderbird could possibly use what Firefox already offers today. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1989976 Title: [upstream] wishlist: Passkeys should be supported Status in Mozilla Firefox: Confirmed Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Starting from 2022 the main big tech companies introduce Passkeys. Or in the more official name Fido Multi-device credentials. Basically this is a webauthn login, but the private key is distributed among all the devices in a persons Google, Microsoft and iCloud account. If a person wants to login in on a device not in the account a QR code should be scanned after which the computers do some cryptographic magic via Bluetooth. And the new device also has the private key. This method is supposed to be a lot safer and more convenient than the usual passwords. As far as I know this system is open. My wish is that Ubuntu and Linux in general also will support this Passkeys thing. Regards, Martijn. See : https://fidoalliance.org/multi-device-fido-credentials/ https://developers.google.com/identity/fido https://developer.apple.com/passkeys/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1989976/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
