Microsoft will refuse passwords in favor of access keys

Microsoft will introduce access keys when registering new users. Passwords will gradually go into history. A new direction promises a multiple increase in safety.

Access key or Passkey is a new and safe method of entering online services, writes Xrust. It does not require complicated password to remember. Remember what you had to compose with all sorts of symbols. Passkey -based entrances simply use your biometric data for verification — the data is much more difficult to steal, since the authentication process is performed on the device.

Among the additional advantages — the use of access key accelerates the entrance. Of course, comparing with password. You enter a login, then write a password, then see what came to the phone.

This is certainly a big step in the complete rejection of passwords, since the current method is very susceptible to data leaks, which may be especially problematic if the passwords are not encrypted. The transition from the era of passwords means that we no longer need to worry about complex (and often annoying) practices, including password updating every few months or performing a password discharge from time to time for accounting, which remained inactive.