Say Goodbye To Passwords: Google Introduces Passwordless Login With Passkeys
Your Google account can now be passwordless, the company announced recently. In a blog post titled "The beginning of the end of the password," Google said that it's rolling out support for passkeys across Google accounts on all major platforms.
What a better time to do it than on World Password Day that is celebrated on the first Thursday of every May. Google envisions that by the next World Password Day, users might not even need their passwords.
How would a passworldess world work?
According to Google, passkeys may be earlier used as an additional step alongside passwords, 2-step verification, etc. But now, users can opt to go passwordless and just use a passkey to access their Google accounts.
An example of how it would work:
But what is a passkey? Based on a technology called "FIDO2," users can now use a physical security to authenticate their identity or simply use biometric data of the face or fingerprints.
In practice, Google says that it will ask for your username, then for a fingerprint that unlocks the passkey system to grant you access to your account. Currently, Google is rolling out the passwordless feature to consumer devices. Eventually, it will be extended to Google Workspace accounts.
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Even then, a passwordless world isn't fully upon us... yet. Most platforms are not ready to embrace this switch to passkeys, including Google's own Chrome OS. Eventually, such platforms would require users to switch back to their passwords.
In addition, passkeys sync through the operating system ecosystem instead of a browser (how passwords are synced). For instance, if you save a password on Chrome on Windows, it will be available throughout various platforms, but passkeys don't offer that functionality yet.
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Google claims that passkeys are more resistant to online attacks like phishing, making them a more secure alternative to SMS one-time codes.
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