{"id":6975,"date":"2021-06-16T09:27:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6975"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:52:44","slug":"apple-to-replace-passwords-with-passkeys-on-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/apple-to-replace-passwords-with-passkeys-on-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple To Replace Passwords With Passkeys On Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During a WWDC developer meeting titled &#8220;Move beyond passwords,&#8221; tech giant Apple gave a taste of a new feature called &#8220;passkeys in iCloud keychain,&#8221; where users don&#8217;t have to take any hardware with them because their various Apple products will now include the passkeys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passkeys are a pair of private and public keys that function as hardware security keys but are securely stored in the iCloud keyring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While passkeys is a wonderful innovation in the sense that they are synced across different devices, meaning that they are recoverable even if a user loses his \/ her passwords, it also offers other quality advantages, including the fact that they cannot be guessed, cannot be reused across services, and are not vulnerable to phishing or data breaches.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/21\/06\/09\/apple-wants-to-replace-passwords-with-your-iphone-or-mac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Apple Insider.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple to swap out passwords for &#8220;passkeys&#8221; on iPhone, Mac and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,16],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-6975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-security","tag-apple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7004,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions\/7004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}