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Join the promotion of Passkey, Amazon overseas official website quietly add relevant functional support

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 21:20:35 09月30日 Update

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Alejandro86 and soft media users 1520111 for their clue delivery! CTOnews.com, Oct. 18, Amazon has added support for Passkey on its overseas website, but there are some logic problems with the related features.

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It is reported that if the user has previously set up double authentication (2FA), users will need to continue to enter the double authentication code even if they pass the Passkey verification when logging on to Amazon's official website.

Amazon claims that its website is in the "early stages" of adding Passkey support to "provide customers with another secure way to access their accounts", although it is not clear when Amazon will fix the logic problem of "coexistence of Passkey and double authentication".

In addition, Amazon's App currently does not support Passkey, and users still need to use passwords to log in to related applications.

CTOnews.com Note: Passkey is a login authentication file composed of a set of keys, in which the public key is used to register the website or App, and the private key is stored on the user's equipment. After the user registers Passkey, the user can use various biometric features (such as fingerprint, iris) and PIN code on the device to log in to various website services with one click. Because PassKey is based on FIDO 2 / WebAuthn standards, it supports cross-platform use.

Apart from the fact that users do not need to remember passwords, the main benefit of Passkey is security. Because the public key and private key are separated, and the user's login credentials will be stored in the cloud and locally, it is more difficult for hackers to obtain the user's password information.