It is now possible to login to the LastPass vault without a password. You no longer need to use a master password for the password manager to log in to this vault. But what exactly is the LastPass vault and how does it work?
What is LastPass?
LastPass is a password manager that works as an app on your phone or as an extension that you install in your browser. With every app or website where you need to log in, LastPass will ask if it should remember your login details for you. If you later want to log in to a relevant website, LastPass will automatically fill in the login details for you and thus allow you to log in to the website automatically. All of this data is stored in your own LastPass vault.
You can therefore see this safe as a virtual safe in which you will find all the data that you have stored with the password manager. For example, think of passwords, usernames and credit card details.
You do need a password for the safe
LastPass also ensures that you never have to come up with a password again. LastPass does this through its built-in password generator. This one creates strong random passwords. Because of all this, LastPass ensures, among other things, that you no longer have to write down passwords on a piece of paper, that you do not use the same passwords for multiple websites, you do not make up passwords like ‘1234’ and you never have to come up with a password yourself. . However?
The latter is not entirely true, because you have to come up with a password for the LastPass vault. However, this is now a thing of the past. The ‘LastPass Authenticator’ allows you to log in to your vault using LastPass authentication. You do not have to enter a password for this. LastPass said in a press release, “This is just the first step in our mission to become ‘passwordless’.”
You can use this authentication by installing the LastPass Authenticator app and following the instructions. Next, you need to set the LastPass Authenticator as your multifactor option for LastPass. You will then be prompted for verification via the LastPass Authenticator app. The LastPass Authenticator can be found below.
Not only LastPass sees a future without passwords. Google, Apple and Microsoft also want password-less logins to become the norm, by 2023.
Do you use LastPass or another password manager? Let us know in the comments below this article.
– Thanks for information from Androidworld. Source