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The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.
It's gotten much easier to sync passkeys across your devices through a single password manager, but CXP aims to standardize the technical process for securely transferring them between platforms so users are free—and safe—to roam the digital landscape. “In the future, this could apply to mobile driver's licenses, say, or passports—any secrets that you want to export somewhere and import into another system,” Christiaan Brand, identity and security group product manager at Google, tells WIRED. The FIDO Alliance is basically aiming to help them with the pitch—providing data and communications materials—and then support their rollout with pre-fab materials like implementation and roll-out guides, user experience and design guidelines, documentation around accessibility, and troubleshooting.
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