Google is now making it possible to sign in to Chrome with a passkey instead of a traditional password. You confirm on your phone that it is you, and this way you get access to an account.
Login without password
Managing passwords is a chore for many people, which is why the largest tech companies in the world announced a collaboration this year that revolves around the FIDO standard. ‘Fast Identity Online’ is a system where a passkey replaces the classic password. Google has now rolled out the necessary technology for Chrome and Android, making it known in a blog post.
Logging in without a password works as follows. If you want to use the system for one of your online accounts, you must create a passkey once. You do this by first selecting your account and then confirming it with your fingerprint scanner or facial recognition on your phone.
Using the passkey then works very similarly. When using Chrome on your Android phone, first choose the account and confirm with biometric authentication. At that moment, your phone exchanges a cryptographic token with the website in question. If you are sitting in front of your PC, you have to scan a QR code with your phone that appears on your monitor. Then follows exactly the same login process via the fingerprint scanner or facial recognition.
Create a passkey
Using a passkey to login
Availability
And the fact that FIDO is a collaboration, so Microsoft Apple and Google, also makes the system extra handy. So in the coming months you can, for example, use an Android phone to log in to Microsoft OneDrive with the Safari browser on your Mac computer.
Unfortunately, you can’t expect to be able to create such a password key for every website today. Website makers must first make their website compatible with the FIDO standard. At the moment, the system is also only integrated into the unstable Chrome Canary browser. In the course of 2023, the system will become widely available, including for Microsoft and Apple products. Google, on the other hand, isn’t done with the FIDO standard this year, and it still wants the passkey to work with Android apps by 2022.
If you want to know more about FIDO, the ways to transfer keys to a new phone and what happens when your phone is stolen, we invite you to read this article for more information.
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