Despite exciting progress toward more secure and usable factors, the best MFA mechanism for consumers really isn’t MFA at all — it’s passkeys. Passkeys are a FIDO authenticator with the advantage of being backed up to the cloud, so if you lose your device or buy a new one, all you must do is sign into your iCloud or Google Play account to recover your passkeys. Passkeys use public key cryptography and device biometrics, making them resistant to many known attacks, and are easy for the user.


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9TO5Mac: 1Password will soon let users unlock password vaults with passkeys

Popular password manager 1Password teased in June that native support for passkeys is coming to the…

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IT Brew: Enterprises and developers play leading role in passwordless future

Many industry pros are increasingly channeling their inner Bill Gates in 2004 and predicting the decline of…

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Engadget: What the hell are passkeys and why are they suddenly everywhere?

Passkeys promise a future without passwords, where we access our accounts as easily as we…

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