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“Logging in without any passwords, how’s that supposed to work?” you may be asking yourself. After all, user names and passwords are so much a part of everyday life that it’s hard to imagine whether ...

Hardware-bound passkeys are still ultimate in security: Yubico VP Your email has been sent Derek Hanson, Yubico’s VP of standards and alliances and an industry expert on passkeys, discusses why device ...

Historians believe the first computer password was created in 1961 by MIT computer science professor Fernando Corbató, who needed a way to manage access to a time-sharing computer. A year later, one ...

Passkeys offer a way of confirming you are who you say you are without remembering a long, complicated password, and in a manner that's resistant to common attacks on passwords like phishing and ...

It’s been a couple of years since Apple, Google, and Microsoft started trying to kill the password, and its demise seems more likely than ever. In 2022, all three companies embraced an alternative ...

We’ve been using passwords to protect our various accounts for a few decades now, and, to be honest, we’re not very good at it. Many of us use the same simple, easy to remember passwords for all of ...

A hardware security key, like those offered by Yubico, is often said to be the most secure form of authentication. All the sensitive sign-in credentials are saved on a physical device that is always ...

Do your favorite sites even support passkeys? Join us on a typical passkey journey from discovery to registration to authentication to deletion. Read now Passkeys are often described as a passwordless ...

Part of the "passkeys are more secure than passwords" story is derived from the fact that passkeys are non-human-readable secrets -- stored somewhere on your device -- that even you have very limited ...