Signing back into the Community for the first time? You'll need to reset your password to access your account. Find out more.
Forum Discussion
Secure Desktop Function Removed?
With the latest update of 1Password 8, it appears as if the functionality of using the secure desktop sign-in feature was removed? Can someone provide some insight on this? For now I guess for us us...
Just thinking of this again this morning.
I understand that the industry is all trying to move towards passkeys and doing away with passwords altogether. Not to mention that this is a fundamental shift in the paradigm and whether or not password managers will be something we will need in 5-10 years time.
I say 5-10 years because in all seriousness, I do not see passwords disappearing until there is a standard, easily implemented and easily supported way of putting passkey infrastructure in place. So in this interim period, we need our password managers.
If Agile Bits were to go down the passkeys path as a mechanism in securing our vaults and until that time, we still need to manage the threats and their risks to our vaults.
Not knowing how Secure Desktop was implemented in 1Password but having some idea in how I could trigger Windows UAC in its simplest form (Microsoft publishes how you do this to the developer community), I don't think this is a hard thing to implement. Sure. Maybe the UI changes when you switch between Secure Desktop and the current 1Password UI but security is better than presentation in my opinion. Otherwise your customer base would not be even considering using 1Password!
Food for thought.
