- Passkeys offer a secure, convenient option for authentication.
- Last fall the FIDO Alliance announced a new system for importing and exporting passkeys across devices and platforms.
- The Google Password Manager now shows signs of work towards implementing just such a system.
Making security sound sexy is a pretty tall ask, but passkeys sure manage a solid swing at earning that label. The password replacements aren’t just easier to use than old-fashioned passwords, letting our biometrics do the heavy lifting, but they also offer even stronger and more versatile cryptographic security. Really, maybe the most irksome part of using them has been the initial setup process, and even that’s been promising to get better, as we learned last fall of a new system for securely exporting and importing passkeys across platforms.