After a decade of work, the FIDO Alliance says it’s found the missing piece in the bridge to a password-free future.
“The key to being successful for FIDO is being readily available—we need to be as ubiquitous as passwords,” says Andrew Shikiar, executive director of the FIDO Alliance. “Passwords are part of the DNA of the web itself, and we’re trying supplant that. Not using a password should be easier than using a password.”
“Passkeys are WebAuthn credentials with the amazing security that the standard provides, combined with the usability of being backed up, synced, and working on all of your devices,” Garrett Davidson, an engineer for Apple’s app authentication experience teamat the conference in June. “We’re storing them in iCloud Keychain. Just like everything else in your iCloud Keychain, they’re end-to-end encrypted, so not even Apple can read them … And they’re very easy to use.
“This grand vision of ‘Let’s move beyond the password,’ we’ve always had this end state in mind to be honest, it just took until everyone had mobile phones in their pockets,” Brand says. Google joined FIDO just months after its formation in 2013. “Hopefully for the users it will be a small behavioral change, but the technology is a giant leap forward.”
Additionally, while FIDO’s proposal is a major security improvement over passwords in many ways, it isn’t infallible. Its success will depend on the security of each operating system’s implementation. You’re already likely all too familiar with the nightmare of being forced to trust the authentication scheme of each website and service you have an account with, but no alternative is perfect.
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