![]() The current new-account experience (Opens in a new window) is a lot more complicated: After providing a name and an email address, you create a master password with at least 10 characters that you cannot under any circumstances forget. In a demo shown over a Zoom call, a tap of a Mac’s Touch ID button in response to a “Sign in with Passkey” prompt was enough to create a 1Password account. “Instead of playing whac-a-mole with passwords, why not eliminate that avenue of attack outright?” “In 2022, it was rare that a month went by without a high-profile social, identity, or security service being breached,” says Chief Product Officer Steven Won. ![]() The Toronto company announced (Opens in a new window) Thursday that it will instead invite customers to create and unlock an account with passkeys-complex and unique tokens generated on a biometrically secured device that only work in physical proximity to the computer hosting the login attempt.Īpple, Google, and Microsoft jointly announced support for this open authentication standard (Opens in a new window) last May, but a password manager offering passkeys as a primary authentication system is a major step forward. Sometime this summer, people signing up for the 1Password password manager won’t need to remember one especially critical and complex alphanumeric string-the master password that service requires today. ![]()
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