{"id":213580,"date":"2025-03-26T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easy-software.com\/?post_type=glossar&p=213580"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:04:57","slug":"passkeys","status":"publish","type":"glossar","link":"https:\/\/easy-software.com\/en\/glossary\/passkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Passkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Passkey was launched on the market in 2022<\/mark> and the technology is being driven forward by the FIDO Alliance<\/mark>. The aim<\/mark> is to improve security and user-friendliness in the authentication process. The FIDO Alliance <\/a>includes well-known companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How secure is a passwordless login?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Very secure.<\/mark> Passkey is based on proven methods<\/mark> that center on asymmetric cryptography and digital signatures<\/a>. Asymmetric cryptography uses a key pair consisting of a public and a private key. This is the passkey<\/mark> that the browser saves for logging in. You do not have to remember any passwords. To log in to a website, you only need to unlock this passkey: with a fingerprint or via facial recognition, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another advantage is protection against brute force attacks. As there are no passwords that could be guessed, such attacks are ineffective. This increases security considerably and makes Passkeys a robust solution for authentication.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Holy Grail of asymmetric cryptography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Methods of this type are usually used for object encryption. But more is possible: anyone<\/mark> who accesses a website via HTTPS automatically benefits from digital certificates <\/mark>proving the ownership <\/mark>of the website operator. So you \u201cknow\u201d you are \u201ctalking\u201d to the right remote station. Another example is S\/MIME<\/mark>, which uses digital certificates<\/mark> to guarantee the authenticity<\/mark> and integrity of emails.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

What are the advantages of Passkeys?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Passkeys make it just as easy to dispense with login procedures with user names and passwords. At the same time, this authentication also has many other advantages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n