A Passwordless Future May Require Our Phones To Be Security Keys
Strong passwords are inconvenient to create and manage, but adding extra steps and devices to the authentication process is an even bigger headache. The FIDO Alliance has published a whitepaper analyzing the shortcomings that prevent its passwordless authentication standard from becoming mainstream.Passwordless authentication mechanisms have failed to replace passwords because they are inconvenient, the whitepaper suggests.It proposes the use of smartphones as roaming security keys. That’s the conclusion of a whitepaper by the Fast ID Online Alliance (FIDO), which blames usability issues for preventing passwordless authentication mechanisms from becoming mainstream....