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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