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 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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Ars Technica: Practical passwordless authentication comes a step closer with WebAuthn

ArsTechnica reports that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance announced that a…

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CNET: Password-free web security is coming to Chrome, Firefox, Edge

CNET reports that leading browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge will support WebAuthn…

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