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The Future of Passwords

Published · 26 min

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The Future of Passwords: What Replaces Them?

PASSWORDS ARE DYING

*Passwords are reused, phished and stolen at enormous scale. This documentary explains what websites should store, why forms of MFA offer different protection, how passkeys use public-key cryptography, why your face or fingerprint stays on your device, and why account recovery may become the real front door.

We compare synced and device-bound passkeys, follow attackers toward session theft and authorised scams, and examine the difficult migration across consumer accounts, enterprises and machine identities.

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Chapters

  1. The Secret We Reused Everywhere
  2. What a Website Should Store
  3. Two Factors, Unequal Strength
  4. A Lock With Two Keys
  5. Your Face Is Not Sent to the Website
  6. Synced or Bound to One Device
  7. Recovery Is the Real Front Door
  8. What Attackers Target Next
  9. Why Passwords Will Not Vanish Tomorrow
  10. The Door Learns Where It Stands

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