My wife and myself have a need to share passkeys for various sites. As we don’t want to use an iCloud keychain, can we use an encrypted usb flash drive, that has a keychain on it to share passkeys between devices. At this stage we haven’t created any passkeys, thus I have no way of testing this method. Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated.
There’s no harm or downside in creating a passkey, so I would recommend that you just try it with a site like eBay, Amazon, PayPal, or LinkedIn. I honestly cannot visualize how this would work with a USB stick—it feels like vastly more effort than is warranted. I would be entirely comfortable with sharing passkeys via iCloud Keychain, and Apple’s Passwords app is a fine choice at this point in time.
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@silvester
I’d say since passkeys play a key role in security, the best way to store passkeys on a portable USB device, if you must, is on a security key.
Why? When protecting valuable data or access to sensitive activities, you should not do anything unexpected or unsupported by your chosen security method. Passkeys aren’t meant to be handled like “regular” applications and files by design. Also, USB thumb drives are not well suited for long-term storage of data for many reasons.
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Do you know of any sites that will disable your password after creating a PassKey? I’d be very afraid of being away from a trusted device and end up with no way to access my account.
Especially because I use multiple web browsers (Safari, Firefox, Edge, Chromium) on multiple operating systems (iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, Windows), and I know of no mechanism that can sync passkeys across all of them.