It has been passed over in silence, but both Apple and Google have announced their more sustained support for a technology that aims to replace passwords everywhere on the Internet. They are called passkeys.
Password manager service 1Password, one of the most popular password managers on the Internet, has announced that it will also support passkeys.
passkeys?
So, the first question you might ask yourself is: what exactly is a passkey? It’s a way to identify yourself without the popular username and password. Doing so requires some form of biometric recognition, which requires a fingerprint reader, or a camera capable of facial recognition, or something.
Obviously, metric identification is already on smartphones. More and more PCs are now being sold with some form of biometric identification as well.
Identification
In short, from the moment you want to access an online service with a passkey, the device you’re using to access your fingerprint or face has to recognize it. You may also need to use an authenticator app that will give you a six-digit code to send to the site you want to visit.
Once you do this, the site or service in question will know who you are, and grant you access to their content. At the moment, the number of sites compatible with passkeys is very limited, but it is starting to grow.
Indeed, Apple and Google use them in most of their applications. 1Password will manage its passkeys via a plugin that is compatible with most popular web browsers.
And finally, we will no longer need to remember all the passwords that we are constantly asked to enter, then to change, then not to write anywhere, but above all !, so that we never forget … look forward.
