"In order to be widely adopted though, users need the ability to choose where and when they want to use passkeys so they can easily switch between ecosystems." "With Google turning on passkey support today, 1.5 billion people around the world now have the opportunity to adopt passkeys," 1Password CEO Jeff Shiner said in a statement Wednesday. It's not clear how simple that process will be, however, and although Google has expressed support for the idea, Apple has been quiet. For example, when you establish a Google passkey on an Android phone, Google automatically generates passkeys on other Android devices, but not on your iPhone.īut password manager makers Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane and 1Password are now active at the FIDO Alliance, working on technology to let you export and import passkeys. One complication of passkeys is that they are, for now at least, anchored to specific tech ecosystems - chiefly Apple and Google. The FIDO Alliance got its start with hardware security keys, the strongest mainstream authentication technology around, but repackaged it as passkeys in an attempt to make it easier and cheaper to use. They're based on cryptographic standards that protect e-commerce transactions and network communications, repurposed by the Fast Identity Online Alliance for use in authentication. Passkeys are designed to sidestep all this. We bolster passwords with dual factor authentication, but that's got its own problems, especially with login codes sent by text message.
We reuse passwords across multiple apps and services, so stolen credentials can be used in "credential stuffing" attacks to break into other accounts. We pick guessable passwords that hackers can crack. Passwords are familiar but not easy to use well. My existing authentication options - hardware security keys, an authenticator app, and prompts within Google apps - are still available.
In my passkey tests, I was able to easily create a passkey on my main Android phone and extend that credential to my Mac and then my iPhone.
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