Google has decided to launch a new way to authenticate using the phone that surpasses traditional passwords and two-step authentication, This is called Passkey or security key.
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Google has decided to release this feature for its users, and this feature allows you to use biometric authentication such as your face or fingerprint to log into your account, something much faster – and more secure – than entering the account password.
Next, we’ll show you how you can activate the passkey to log in as securely as possible to Google using your fingerprint, face recognition or PIN.
How to Activate Passkey in Google
To create the access keys, you must go to the section created by Google to manage everything related to this function. You can access it by clicking on this link.
Then you will have to click on the button use access keys so that Google allows you to use this method to log in to the device from which you have just activated it. Even you can do it on the computer
That way, the next time you want to sign in to your Google account with that device, you just have to use whatever unlock method you use for your phone.
Google has implemented fingerprint unlocking in other Android stuff, like when paying in Google Pay, and it’s good news that this kind of unlocking method is reaching more and more places.
How does Passkey work?
The name given to this feature can be translated as a passkey, and it involves using an authentication method on your phone to log in without having to remember the password.
After all, passwords can present vulnerabilities, no matter how elaborate. So Google’s idea is that you can use the same method to unlock your mobile as your account and make it a simple process.
Moreover, these access keys have a higher degree of security than two-step authentication, and the good thing is that they cannot be leaked as happens from time to time with passwords.
The advent of AI has made alphanumeric keys less of a mystery to cybercriminals, and certainly an unlocking method that can be insecure.
The future lies not in more complex passwords, but in stopping using passwords and replacing them with login methods as comfortable as this, and from now on you will only need your fingerprint to access your account.
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