- The chrome password manager will now allow a change in automated password
- The new feature helps reduce friction, says Google
- Passwords remain the number one authentication method
Users can now change passwords compromised directly in their Chrome browser, in a few clicks. This is the promise given in a new Google blog discussing the in -depth changes that the company brings to user authentication and identity verification.
Most browsers are already delivered with a password manager (rudimentary), allowing users to generate solid passwords, store their identification information and fill it automatically for speed and convenience.
Now, Google’s Chrome developers, Ashima Arora, Chirag Desai and Eiji Kitamura, said the company was based on this foundation to “repair compromise passwords in one click”.
Modification of passwords
“The automated password change allows users to respond more easily when their identification information is at risk,” said the blog. “When Chrome detects a compromise password during the connection, Google Password Manager invites the user with an option to automatically correct it. On the websites supported, Chrome can generate a solid replacement and update the password for the user automatically. This reduces friction and helps users to keep their account secure, without chasing by account settings or abandon the process halfway.”
Passwords are always by far the most common and most popular form of authentication. They are also the least secure form, because people tend to create low and easy -to -guess passwords, tend to share them with friends, family and colleagues, or store them in unsafe places to which pirates can easily access.
The community has rallied behind alternatives such as Passkeys, biometric authentication or physical safety keys. Google also works on all these elements (and then some), but stressed that passwords were “always the most common authentication method in the world”, which suggests that it does not abandon the practice of any time.
The complete blog is a fairly interesting reading, discussing a unified connection experience, improved identity verification and improved session security. You can read it in more detail on this link.
