The FIDO Alliance, the organization supporting the adoption of Shepherd passkeys, announced a draft of new specifications that would allow users to securely move their passkeys between different password managers.
The FIDO Alliance's Credential Provider 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 the draft stage, so users can review and comment. They have not yet been adopted by password managers.
But companies like 1Password and Dashlane have already announced their support.
“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 was no standard for the secure transmission of credentials, and passwords or other credentials were often transmitted in plain text.”
Amazon also had some passkey news today, announcing that “more than 175 million customers” have activated passkeys for their accounts.