Published on: 2025-06-09 17:00:51
Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority I have a 22-character long password that’s a random mix of letters, numbers, and special characters. But entering this password on a brand new device has become a chore. Add a two-factor authentication prompt via an authenticator app or SMS, and the login process can become frustratingly long. This is admittedly only a minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things, but it’s not elegant at all. I’m also in the minority — most people don’t use a password m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 02:22:39
When most people think of cryptography, the first thing they typically think of is encryption: keeping information confidential. But just as important (if not more) is authenticity: ensuring that information is really coming from an authentic source. When you visit a website, the server typically proves its identity through a Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate authenticated by the Web Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Passwords are the traditional solution for user authentication, but the
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When most people think of cryptography, the first thing they typically think of is encryption: keeping information confidential. But just as important (if not more) is authenticity: ensuring that information is really coming from an authentic source. When you visit a website, the server typically proves its identity through a Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate authenticated by the Web Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Passwords are the traditional solution for user authentication, but the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 01:29:31
Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Google Password Manager for Android could get automatic passkey upgrades. This would be a major improvement over having to manually upgrade your passwords to passkeys on Android. Passkeys are more secure and convenient alternatives to usernames and passwords. Google has firmly embraced passkeys as an alternative to passwords, giving users a more secure and convenient way to sign in. The Chrome browser on de
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 00:58:00
emretopdemir/Getty Images Sooner or later, it's coming: You'll be logging into one of your favorite websites or applications, and you'll find no option to supply a user ID and password. There won't even be a password field. (The jury is still out on the user ID field.) You'll simply choose from a personalized dropdown list of credentials valid for that site or app and, if all goes well, you'll be granted access. Today, this auto-magical, passwordless process is hardly bulletproof. But, our ind
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-28 07:05:53
Microsoft is once again moving closer to a passwordless future. In a bold step toward embracing passkeys – which uses cryptography to better protect data from hackers and phishing scams – new Microsoft accounts will now be passwordless by default. Instead, the company will issue a prompt to set up passkeys as part of an effort to make the process more secure. The company announced the news on World Password Day, which is observed on the first Thursday in May – a day that's been used to encoura
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 16:53:05
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. After supporting passwordless Windows logins for years and even allowing users to delete passwords from their accounts, Microsoft is making its biggest move yet towards a future with no passwords. Now it will ask people signing up for new accounts to only use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys instead, by
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gremlin/Getty Images Sooner or later, it's coming: You'll be logging into one of your favorite websites or applications, and you'll find no option to supply a user ID and password. There won't even be a password field. (The jury is still out on the user ID field.) You'll simply choose from a personalized dropdown list of credentials valid for that site or app and, if all goes well, you'll be granted access. Today, this auto-magical, password-less process is hardly bulletproof. But, our industry
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 00:00:00
The move to passkeys is happening in this way: gradually, then suddenly. Apple has gone all in on passkeys, and while they’re a huge win for consumer security, they’ve been harder to manage in an enterprise environment. That’s starting to change. Some of my favorite gear Abode Home Security System Abode is the best home security system and includes compatibility with HomeKit. Ahead of World Password Day, Dashlane announced it’s now using confidential computing to secure synced passkeys in the
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JennaWagner/Getty Images Out of the blue, I received a text from my father asking me, "What's the difference between a password and a passkey?" Somewhere, in his daily online journey, he was prompted by a website or application -- a "relying party" in authentication lingo -- to create a passkey. But the benefit wasn't clear to him. Nor did there seem to be any urgency. He figured I'd know what passkeys are and what to do the next time he gets a nudge to set one up. I told him, "Let's talk befo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-19 15:30:58
Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Passkeys offer a secure, convenient option for authentication. Last fall the FIDO Alliance announced a new system for importing and exporting passkeys across devices and platforms. The Google Password Manager now shows signs of work towards implementing just such a system. Making security sound sexy is a pretty tall ask, but passkeys sure manage a solid swing at earning that label. The password replacements aren’t just easier to use than old-fashioned pa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-22 00:19:00
We've all been there. You try to log into your bank account with your username and password only to be met with a generic "incorrect password" error. You double-check your password manager, try a few variations, but after too many failed attempts, the system locks you out. Now you're funneled into a tedious re-authentication process involving security questions you barely remember and a password reset form that smugly informs you, "New password can't be the same as the old one." You proceed to t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-22 00:19:00
We've all been there. You try to log into your bank account with your username and password only to be met with a generic "incorrect password" error. You double-check your password manager, try a few variations, but after too many failed attempts, the system locks you out. Now you're funneled into a tedious re-authentication process involving security questions you barely remember and a password reset form that smugly informs you, "New password can't be the same as the old one." You proceed to t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-08 19:07:01
In this blogpost I will go over a vulnerability I found in all major mobile browsers that allowed an attacker within Bluetooth range to take over PassKeys accounts by triggering FIDO:/ intents. TLDR An attacker within bluetooth range is able to trigger navigation to a FIDO:/ URI from an attacker controlled page on a mobile browser, allowing them to initiate a legitimate PassKeys authentication intent which will be received on the attacker’s device. This results in the attacker being able to “ph
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-23 12:00:00
Passwords are ubiquitous, despite not being foolproof and cannot alone protect your online identity. Almost one-third of data breaches reported over the past decade happened due to stolen credentials, per Verizon, including some of the biggest breaches of all time. Instead, the industry has largely found passkeys arguably the most prominent solution to replace passwords. More than 15 billion accounts online can use passkeys, and big tech companies — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, and oth
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Late last year, I published a long post that criticized the user unfriendliness of passkeys, the industry-wide alternative to logging in with passwords. A chief complaint was passkey implementations tend to lock users into whatever platform they used to create the credential. An example: when using Chrome on an iPhone, passkeys were saved to iCloud. When using Chrome on other platforms, passkeys were saved to a user’s Google profile. That meant passkeys created for Chrome on, say, Windows, woul
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