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How Passkeys Work: Let's Start The Passkey Registration Process

ZDNET, Thursday, July 10th, 2025

Your passkey journey can be a strange and inconsistent ordeal. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Previously on our passkey journey, I talked about the challenge of figuring out if a relying party -- typically, the operator of a website or app -- even offers the ability to sign in with a passkey instead of the more traditional and less secure username and password-based approach.

Some of the biggest relying parties in the world -- including Apple, Google, and Microsoft -- support passkeys as a means of passwordless authentication. Together, these tech giants can introduce billions of global users to the phishing and smishing-resistant technology.

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