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Microsoft Accounts Now Support Hardware-based Login via FIDO 2

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2018/11/21 01:36:47 (permalink)
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-accounts-passwordless-login-fido2,38100.html
 
Via a hardware token, users with a FIDO 2-enabled drive are able to skip manual introduction of any authentication in both Windows (version 1809 and up) or any supporting website (with a browser that supports the FIDO 2/WebAuthn API. It basically creates a security key using cryptography, where the user only has to press a button on the security key to log into a website. Microsoft has partnered with Yubico for a while now on developing this security mechanism, and the company's FIDO 2 keys are now compatible with the OS. Sounds like a very secure method unless the FIDO 2 device becomes infected with malware.

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    Re: Microsoft Accounts Now Support Hardware-based Login via FIDO 2 2018/11/25 20:05:50 (permalink)
    TPM chips are more secure and cannot be desoldered easily and are are still resisant to hacking of removed
     
    TPM can be hardened more easily
     
     

      


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