The FIDO Alliance, the organization that is helping guide passcode adoption, announced a draft of new specifications that would allow users to securely move their access keys between different password managers.
The FIDO Alliance’s “Credential Providers Special Interest Group,” which includes representatives from 1Password, Apple, Bitwarden, Google, Microsoft, Okta, and more, collaborated on the specifications. The new specifications are still in draft so people can review them and provide feedback; password managers have not yet adopted them.
But companies like it 1password and Dashlane They have already announced that they will support them.
“It is critical that users can choose the credential management platform they prefer and switch credential providers securely and without burden,” the FIDO Alliance wrote in its press release. “Until now, there has been no standard for the secure movement of credentials, and often the movement of passwords or other credentials has been done in a clear way.”
Amazon also had some passcode news today, announcing that “More than 175 million customers” have activated access codes for their accounts.