Our future without passwords
summary
Passwords force frequent resets (90% several times a year, 6% daily) and cause 81% of breach‑related attacks; replacing them with pass keys uses per‑site cryptographic key pairs so servers store only public keys, making phishing and server breaches ineffective. Major sites (PayPal, Amazon, Kayak) and Google accounts (supported since May 2023) already use them; integration uses the WebAuthn API, platform credential managers (Android/iOS/Keychain) and server libraries (Java, PHP, TypeScript, Rust), and syncing across platforms improves by end of 2024.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:48Password problems
- 3:18Introducing passkeys
- 5:06Passkeys standards
- 6:31Try passkeys with Google
- 7:33Security advantages
- 9:18Cross-platform support
- 10:42Syncing passkeys
- 11:47Transitioning to passkeys
- 13:12Implementing passkeys
- 13:55Summary
