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Passwords are dying, long live passkeys<\/a>. Practically the entire tech industry seems to agree that hexadecimal passwords need to die, and that the best way to replace them is with the cryptographic keys that have come to be known as passkeys. Basically, rather than having you type a phrase to prove you\u2019re you, websites and apps use a standard called WebAuthn<\/a> to connect directly to a token you have saved \u2014 on your device, in your password manager, ultimately just about anywhere \u2014 and authenticate you automatically. It\u2019s more secure, it\u2019s more user-friendly, it\u2019s just better.<\/p>\n

The transition is going to take a while, though, and even when you can use passkeys, it\u2019ll be a while before all your apps and websites let you do so. But Dashlane is trying to help move things along, announcing today that it\u2019s integrating passkeys into its cross-platform password manager. \u201cWe said, you know what, our job is to make security simple for users,\u201d says Dashlane CEO JD Sherman, \u201cand this is a great tool to do that. So we should actually be thinking about ushering in this passwordless era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going forward, Dashlane users can start to set up passkeys to log into sites and apps where they previously would have created passwords. And whereas systems like Apple\u2019s upcoming implementation in iOS 16 will often involve taking a picture of a QR code to log in, Dashlane says it can make the process even simpler because it has apps for most platforms and an extension for most browsers. <\/p>\n

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To demonstrate, Rew Islam, Dashlane\u2019s director of engineering, shared his screen with me over Zoom and opened up the WebAuthn website \u2014 so few apps support passkeys that the standard\u2019s website is the best way to test them \u2014 and typed in his email address to register a new account. \u201cAt this point, you\u2019d do your dance with the phone, you\u2019d be scanning a QR code, but here in the corner, Dashlane is like, \u2018Hey, do you want to create a new key with Dashlane?\u2019 And you click confirm and it\u2019s done.\u201d <\/p>\n

The passkey tech works, Islam says. It has for a while, and companies have been testing it and beginning to implement it for several years<\/a>. The biggest challenge for the industry has been getting everyone on board with the same model for the future of authentication, which has actually happened \u2014 Google, Apple, Microsoft, and others<\/a> are all betting on the same underlying passkey technology, managed through the FIDO Alliance. Apple is adding passkey support to iCloud keychain, letting users log into their devices and apps just by authenticating with Touch ID or Face ID<\/a>; Google is also planning support for passkeys in Android and Chrome. Microsoft has been building passkey support for some time, using Windows Hello and other authentication tools.<\/p>\n

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