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Google launches Passkeys and wants to herald the beginning of the end of passwords

4.5.2023

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It is now possible to use passkeys for your Google accounts. This allows you to log in to accounts and apps in the same way as on your smartphone or PC: with a fingerprint, face scan or PIN.

About a year ago, Google, Apple, Microsoft and other members of the Fido Alliance announced that they would support passkeys. The platform is intended to be simpler and more secure than passwords and make them superfluous. It is now possible to use Passkeys with Google accounts.

To use the cryptographic key solution, you must first authenticate a device. This can be a smartphone, tablet, notebook or PC. This can then be used to log in to your Google account on all major platforms. This allows you to log in using local biometric authentication or a PIN instead of a conventional password or two-factor authentication - so it doesn't work completely without a code after all. The passkeys only exist on the local devices. If you lose your device with a passkey, you can revoke the master key in the account settings.

You can activate the passkeys under the link https://g.co/passkeys in your Google account. Two-factor authentication and passwords will remain active for the time being. If you are interested in how Passkeys work in detail, you can read about this in Google's blog. <p

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