Indian Journal of Science and Technology

Abstract

Background/objectives: Passwordless authentication is one of the most highlighted developments. It has gained much attention recently. Methods/findings: Social media and use of internet has been growing day by day, which further needs the security of that level. Security is an important part of the internet world. It is a huge responsibility to provide a level of security for each user. In this study, we aim to a general process of passwordless authentication, we explore some real life cases for a better view of the topic as well as we introduce the techniques of passwordless authentication and the biometric authentication like fingerprint sensors, face recognition, iris recognition, etc. Improvements/applications: This initiative, which includes many methods of overcoming the flaws of attacks done by hackers. These authentication techniques are adopted by many companies and are used in android smartphones and many more.
Keywords: Authentication, Security, Multi Factor Authentication, Usability, Magic Link, Mechanism