Password managers usually have names on Android and iOS, and 1Password is not higher than that problem. I estimate that about 10% to 15% of the several fields I encountered on my mobile device just don’t register with 1Password, sending me to the app to copy the password manually. This is a question of how an application classifies different fields and exposes them to other applications running, not a 1Password-specific question.
1Password at least tries to fix this using linked apps. When you start logging into the app using an entry in the vault, 1Password connects your login to any app you logged in. This doesn’t eliminate the autofill problem on mobile devices, but in the case where 1Password is looking for a specific URL, it helps to use that URL and the mobile app cannot run with that URL.
Outside of Autofill, using 1Password on Android and iOS is a breeze. You can enter your account password every time you unlock your account if you want, but 1Password supports biometric verification on Android and iOS, including face ID support. After a certain amount of time (you can change the time in the settings), 1Password will ask you to re-enter your account password. Thankfully, if you don’t want to use biometrics, you can also set a pin or password.
Quick access is important because 1Password is very limited on mobile devices, which is a good thing. Even switching to another app or locking your phone will lock your account, and if you swipe in the list of open apps, you will only see the 1Password login screen.
You are free to change these settings from the time you need to re-enter your account password to 1Password when you clear your keyboard history. The default settings work well, but if you can’t bother, you can turn off these extra security measures.
Unique security
1Password may be similar to other password managers, but its security design is unique. company There is a white paper You can read all the bloody details, Maintaining certification list and recent penetration tests. However, at the heart of 1Password security is a zero-knowledge approach. It is designed in such a way that even if 1Password wants, there is no way to decrypt the contents of the vault.
It works because 1Password calls it two sets of key derivation or 2SKD. When you first register 1Password, it takes your account password and secret keys generated on the device and uses them to derive the Key Encryption Key (KEK). Also on your device, 1Password generates a public-private key pair. When your public key is shared, your private key is encrypted.
Apart from that, there are several layers of nested encryption, but the important thing is that 1Password does not have a copy of your private key, nor is it a copy of your account password to deduce kek. When you authenticate, everything happens on your device, including encryption and decryption. Your kek, master password and private key never leave the device.
