Proton has enabled passkey support for all its devices through it’s Proton Pass password manager, to allow any user to have password-less authentication on their device.
Proton has called out Big Tech for restricting passkeys support for only their services and a few devices, while it made the tech free, universal and open-source.
It’s free – as it should be
Starting with an email client, Proton has expanded to a wide range of services to secure our online communications,and is one of the companies actively advocating for user privacy. In this pursuit, the company has announced passkey support for all it’s users, irrespective of their device and subscription plan.
For those of you who didn’t know, Passkeys are an innovative way of authenticating yourself – say it through a fingerprint, Face ID or a PIN. Once enabled on a device, users can verify their access with their device biometrics or credentials instead of regular passwords and since it eliminates the concept of passwords, phishing attacks aiming to steal your online credentials become useless.
This support has now been made available through Proton Pass – the company’s password managing service – allowing users to access their devices more securely than ever. Also, Proton has criticized the Big Tech companies for restricting passkeys’ ability to protect users’ security by crafting them for “specific platforms or providing them with paid plans, meaning you only get to reap passkeys’ security benefits if you can afford them”.
Contrary to that approach, Proton makes their passkeys support free, universal, and open-source. “We believe online privacy and security should be accessible to everyone, regardless of what device you use or your ability to pay,” the company wrote in it’s blog post.
Furthermore, it highlighted the following benefits of it’s new support for passkeys;
- Store and manage your passkeys in any browser and all Proton apps
- Simple, one-click interface
- Open-source and end-to-end encrypted
- Work with all standard and business plans of Proton Pass
- Passkeys and passwords have “equal priority”, so they’re user-friendly and can be used interchangeably.
