No More Password: Passwordless Authentication

Passwords have been the dominant form of online authentication for decades. The common password paradigm wherein users create accounts associated with a secret passphrase seems firmly entrenched, given billions of users are trained to log in this way.

However, reliance on passwords poses severe security risks that only grow as cyber threats increase in sophistication. Major data breaches commonly implicate compromised passwords as the attack vector.

In response, new approaches that move beyond typed passwords for authentication have emerged. While …

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