Google announced they are making passkeys available for authentication to all of their users. What exactly is a pass key and how does it work? How is it safer?
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Simplest ELI5 analogy here… you want to go into a door. A password is knocking on the door and a little window opens with a person asking “what’s the password?” like in the movies, and you respond. Anyone with the password could respond and get in. In theory, only those that should be allowed in should know the password, but anyone that knows the password could tell others, or someone walking by could hear someone say it, or any other various means of someone who shouldn’t know the password could learn it. A pass key is like having a door that requires badge access to get through. And you could make the badge even more secure by adding a biometric scan to it as well (fingerprint scan for example). That way only people who should be allowed through the door are.
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