At the WWDC 2022 conference, apple just demonstrated how safari in MacOS Ventura will support "passkeys", which is a sign in standard. It is based on cross platform support and realizes login without password at all. Apple is not alone in this effort. Last month, Google and Microsoft announced together with apple that they had taken a new step in their long-term development plan to completely kill passwords.
By completely avoiding the use of passwords, users can be prevented from becoming victims of phishing attacks, social engineering or robot attacks, which insert passwords extracted from the compromised password database. Now, users can use a device (such as your mobile phone or computer) as the main authentication device, so using face ID or touch ID or entering the pin code of the device is enough to enable people to log in to various services throughout the network.
Apple showed how "passkeys" are backed up in the icloud key chain so that they can be used on the Mac and iphone、iPad It is synchronized with Apple TV, with end-to-end encryption and a QR code used to pair the phone with the system. When they are used to log in to a service, the actual kjeys are still on the user's device, which is another measure to keep them secure.
This crypto free authentication standard is established by Fido alliance and promises to support different platforms. Apple, Google and Microsoft said they expected to support the new system on their platforms next year. From this demonstration, MacOS Ventura and IOS 16 will be the first to try it.
