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Passwords are dying, long live passkeys<\/a>. Practically the entire tech industry seems to agree that hexadecimal passwords need to die, and that the best way to replace them is with the cryptographic keys that have come to be known as passkeys. Basically, rather than having you type a phrase to prove you\u2019re you, websites and apps use a standard called WebAuthn<\/a> to connect directly to a token you have saved \u2014 on your device, in your password manager, ultimately just about anywhere \u2014 and authenticate you automatically. It\u2019s more secure, it\u2019s more user-friendly, it\u2019s just better.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The transition is going to take a while, though, and even when you can use passkeys, it\u2019ll be a while before all your apps and websites let you do so. But Dashlane is trying to help move things along, announcing today that it\u2019s integrating passkeys into its cross-platform password manager. \u201cWe said, you know what, our job is to make security simple for users,\u201d says Dashlane CEO JD Sherman, \u201cand this is a great tool to do that. So we should actually be thinking about ushering in this passwordless era.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n