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Google Search for Password Replacement Alternatives

Google Search for Password Replacement Alternatives Google.  – Traditional passwords or passwords are believed to have many weaknesses. Starting from being easy to hack, guess, and steal. This leads to personal data breaches and identity theft.  Quoting the site The Verge, Friday, May 3 2024, more than four hundred million Google accounts already use passkeys, which marks a shift towards a world without passwords.  However, will a passwordless future really be a reality? Considering that the increasing number of online accounts that users have, managing strong and unique passwords for each account becomes increasingly difficult and time consuming.  That's why Google and other tech companies are looking for password alternatives. Passkeys, like the ones Google uses, are one promising solution.  The passkey uses asymmetric cryptography and is stored securely on the user's device, making it difficult to hack.  Fingerprints, facial recognition and iris scanning can be u