If you are a disaster to put or remember passwords this is good news. It is normal for us to go crazy with so many accounts, so many passwords and so many different applications. Even more so when all the experts advise that we not put the same password for everything. It's getting harder and harder to remember them all.
The operating system of Google has recently received FIDO2 certification. This recognizes Android as a safe environment where we can use passwords without having to remember them. Selecting the security system of our smartphone that most convinces us, unlock pattern, fingerprint, etc. we will be able to identify ourselves in any application or web in a secure way and with all the guarantees.
Android is a safe environment for your keys
Do you know what a FIDO certification is? The initials of FIDO, translated into Spanish mean ”Quick Online Identity”. A concept created by several technological firms that work together to achieve secure and much easier authentication methods. Passwords and systems that have been used at the business level for years and that will soon be available to other users.
In broad strokes, and explained in an accessible way, the operating system will create a digital identity through an identifier. This could be facial recognition or fingerprint. AND this identity would be used by our device in each account, website or application that we want to identify ourselves. all of it securely and without the need to remember any password.
It seems that this new technology will come to our smartphones soon in the form of a Google system update via Google Play. All devices running Android from version 7.0 will be supported, which is good news for users of phones a few years old as well. And it will be a high percentage of users who will be able to use it.
Finally, those who have little memory, the clueless or those who hate creating a different password for each website or application will find comfort. A technology at all views simple for users but on which numerous hours of work and development have been invested. And that will result in a less stressful and more comfortable user experience.