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I Stopped Using Passwords. It's Great—and a Total Mess
Passkeys are here to replace passwords. When they work, it’s a seamless vision of the future. But don’t ditch your old logins just yet.
Passkeys are generated codes—created using public key cryptography —that are stored on your device or in your password manager and let you log in to websites and apps using your fingerprint, face recognition, or a PIN. More than 8 billion online accounts can set up passkeys right now, says Andrew Shikiar, the chief executive of the FIDO Alliance, an industry body that has developed the passkeyover the past decade. Gary Orenstein, the chief customer officer of password manager Bitwarden, says there are multiple groups involved in the creation and rollout of passkeys, so transitioning to a world where everything is seamless takes coordination.
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