Passwords are in decline but passkeys struggle with an easy explanation

The technical head of the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has given passwords another decade of use, before a predicted “material decline” happens in tandem with the adoption of new options such as passkeys and biometric authentication, finally putting passwords to rest.

“Humans have been shown to be very suggestible to work around pretty much every technical security control that we can imagine,” says Ollie Whitehouse in comments from the Tech World 2024 conference earlier in March, …

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