Google encourages users to forgo passwords on their Google accounts in favor of passkeys, a fast, secure, and password-free approach that uses the pin, face, or fingerprint authentication built into your devices. Starting today, Google will ask its users to create a passkey by default.Passkey period on Google Account
Passkeys allow us to skip annoying steps like remembering and changing passwords. After this move by Google, users will not have to manually search in account settings for the installation process. While the industry-wide goal is to eventually make passkeys the new login standard, Google says traditional passwords “will still be a part of our lives as we make this transition.”
So, users can choose to sign in to their Google accounts with traditional passwords and opt out of using passkeys altogether by disabling the “bypass password whenever possible” option for their accounts. Google introduced passkey support to a number of its products last year, including Workspace and Cloud accounts and the Chrome web browser. Many leading websites and applications have also started supporting passkeys.What are passkeys?
Passkeys let you replace traditional passwords with your device’s own authentication methods. This way, you can sign in to Gmail, PayPal, or iCloud by activating Face ID on your iPhone, your Android phone’s fingerprint sensor, or with Windows Hello on a computer. In this system, built on WebAuthn (or Web Authentication) technology, when you create a passkey, two different keys are generated: one is stored by the website or service where your account is located, and the other is a private key stored on the device you use to verify your identity.
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