We won't have to put up with passwords for all that much longer.
Essentially, a passkey means that the device you’re using proves your identity with whatever screen lock is in place—PIN, facial recognition, fingerprint sensor—proving that you are who you say you are. In simple terms, the tech you use to unlock your phone becomes the tech you use to get into your digital accounts, too. They replace two-step verification as well as the password, and they workUnlike passwords, passkeys can’t be written down or leaked out on the web—they’re tied to your device.
These private passkeys are kept encrypted and secure on individual devices. They can’t be guessed, or leak out from a server on the web, or written down. What’s more, because of the two pairs that make up the passkey, you can’t be tricked into logging into a site or app that’s not what it’s pretending to be .
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