Google, Apple and Microsoft are planning the revolution

Finally, logins without a password: If Google, Apple and Microsoft have their way, we won’t need to remember passwords in the future. Instead, the three companies want to enforce a completely different standard in order to increase security for users.

Tech companies want to abolish passwords

With Google, Apple and Microsoft, three large tech companies have joined forces agreed on a common industry standardto allow users to log in to websites and apps without entering a password. A method is used that was developed jointly by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

The aim of the procedure, which is to be implemented in the next few months, is to increase security for users. To the Theft of login data and, as a result, identities should be better curbed. Since Google, Apple and Microsoft also cover the operating system market almost completely, use with Android, iOS and Windows should also be envisaged.

In concrete terms, the corporations are planning to use the FIDO method for logging in instead of passwords in the future. Here, a pair of keys is generated on the user’s smartphone, tablet or computer biometric factors such as a fingerprint could be tied. The login should then be transferred to synchronized devices. Once logged in to the mobile phone, users no longer need to identify themselves on the computer again.

For one cross-system usein which, for example, a login on the Android cell phone also identifies the user on the MacBook, the companies have to cooperate with each other.

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FIDO instead of password “safer, easier and faster”

According to Alex Simons, who is responsible for identity management at Microsoft, cross-platform collaboration via the FIDO method offers a viable solution that “safer, easier and faster” than passwords and multifactor authentication methods are (source: FIDO Alliance).