GitHub takes another step to replace passwords as a login method and brings passkeys into public beta. Passkeys are the FIDO Alliance’s latest move to simplify secure logins on the Internet – they are intended to solve many of the everyday problems that U2F and FIDO2 hardware tokens bring with them.


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The Guardian: RIP passwords: new web standard designed to replace login method

In this article, The Guardian’s Samuel Gibbs reports that “WebAuthn will eliminate need for passwords…

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Motherboard: Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web

In this article, FIDO Alliance Executive Director Brett McDowell tells Motherboard about WebAuthn, saying “What…

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The Verge: Chrome and Firefox will support a new standard for password-free logins

In his reporting on the newly announced FIDO2 Project, The Verge reporter Russell Brandon predicts…

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