Fido, the security agency, has received new support from apple, Google and Microsoft. These technology companies have announced that they will expand their support for the alliance's password free login standard. After joining the Fido (fast identity online) alliance in 2020, large technology companies such as Apple announced to expand their support for the organization's technologies and goals.
In a joint statement by Fido, apple, Google and, the alliance aims to enable websites and applications to provide secure and simple login without using a password.
Kurt knight, senior director of platform product marketing at Apple, said in a statement: "Just as we designed our products to make them intuitive and capable, we also designed them to make them privacy and security. Working with the industry to establish new and more secure login methods, provide better protection and eliminate password vulnerabilities is the core of our efforts to build products that provide maximum security and transparent user experience, all of which are to protect the security of users' personal information."
Fido believes that password authentication is one of the biggest security problems, because repeated use of passwords means that vulnerabilities in one service will expose other services. It also believes that managing passwords is cumbersome for consumers, and its standards will allow secure password free options.
"Users will log in through the same actions they unlock the device many times a day," the alliance said. "For example, simply verify their fingerprint or face, or device password."
However, it is unclear how the pin code back to the device is more secure than the correctly configured password. Most iPhone The pin code of the device is 4 or 6 numbers. At present, an additional step is required to make it longer or digitize the letters.
However, this method is consistent with the password function proposed by Apple itself, which was previously announced on WWDC in 2021. This is intended to mimic hardware security keys, but use icloud Keychain instead of physical devices.
So far, Apple has introduced initial support for its password lock technology in IOS 15.4.
At present, the new identity authentication function on any platform of the above technology giants has no expected release date. The organization's statement said Apple, Google and Microsoft would implement these functions "in the next year".
Apple is most likely to launch new features on WWDC in 2022 and release them with the new iPhone in the fall.