Samsung brings passkeys to its smart home devices
Samsung wants to protect its smart home devices with a passkey in future. The manufacturer announced this on Thursday at the SDC24 developer conference.
At SDC24, Samsung announced Passkey support for its smart home devices, among other things.
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This year's Samsung developer conference SDC24 brought little news in the area of smartphones, but did surprise with a welcome announcement in the area of IT security. Apparently, Samsung wants to equip new devices from its smarthome range with passkey support.
Phishing-proof login to the fridge
Samsung's operating system key management Pass on the manufacturer's smartphones has been able to save passkeys and synchronize them between devices for some time now. Now the function is to be added to the manufacturer's new smart TVs and smart home devices. Samsung writes in the press release for the event that passkeys will now also be included in the Tizen smart TV operating system. In addition, smart fridges with AI Family Hub and other smart household appliances with AI Home are to receive passkey support. The innovation is expected to be included in models that are due to be launched on the market next year.
Passkeys are an initiative of the Fido Alliance, an industry association whose members include major tech companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft as well as the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The passwordless login procedure combines secure public key cryptography with a biometric factor, such as a face or fingerprint scan, which is used instead of a password to log in to an internet service. Alternatively, a device PIN or device password can also be used to log in.
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Making passkeys usable on networked devices beyond smartphones, tablets and computers is a sensible next step. The passwordless login procedure is not only phishing-proof, but also much more convenient than logging in with a password. Nevertheless, according to a survey by the BSI, not all internet users have started to switch their logins to passkeys. The authority recently issued a recommendation to use the procedure where it is already available. A community-managed list of all web services that already offer passwordless login can be found at passkeys.directory.
(kst)
