Bye! Bye! for Password! Now Access Google Accounts in Your Android Phone Using Fingerprints via Chrome

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Bye! Bye! for Password! Now Access Google Accounts in Your Android Phone Using Fingerprints via Chrome

Google releases a new announcement for Android users to authenticate the web-based google services in chrome for Android using a fingerprint instead of traditional password-based authentication and the feature called FIDO2-based local user verification for Google Accounts.

A password-based authentication protects billion of Android users but now its surpassed by the fingerprint-based authentication which is now available for on Pixel devices and the feature rolling out for Android 7+ devices and reach to users within next few days.

This new feature will increase the security from password-based attacks such as phishing on the web and reduce the burden from keep on remembering the passwords.

In order to provide high-level secure authentication for Google users, the new fingerprint-based authentication implemented using the FIDO2 standards, W3C WebAuthn, and FIDO CTAP.

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