Find out the advantages of eliminating passwords for your users and business.

The digital world is changing. Nowadays, whenever you use a new device or app, it demands password authentication to verify a user’s identity. It makes people feel more deprived. In fact, password authentication takes a lot of time. Sometimes a developer forgets what he was doing before authentication.

However, now developers can take advantage of passwordless authentication. Passwordless authentication will look a bit unique to some people, but it does exist.

Passwordless authentication is a means to verify a user’s identity without using a password. Instead, passwordless uses more secure alternatives like possession factors (one-time passwords [OTP], registered smartphones), or biometrics (fingerprints, retina scans).

As developers use so many passwords at one time, It is very hard to remember all of them. There is a much easier alternative to it, and that is passwordless authentication.

Using Passwordless Authentication is completely safe with Vue and Eartho One. In fact, it is prone to the most common cyberattacks even against all other security concerns. Passwordless authentication is safe with Vue and Eartho One.

What is the point of Passwordless?
Passwordless authentication, as the name suggests, is an authentication system in which the user does not enter a password. Instead, they provide an identifier, such as an email address or phone number, and the authentication system sends a one-time passcode or link to this identifier, which the user must then provide or click to successfully authenticate. The passcode or link is only active for a short period of time, usually around five minutes. Each login request generates a new passcode or link and invalidates any previous passcodes or links. Passwordless authentication, in a sense, also provides two-factor authentication out of the box, because a user must have access to either the email account or phone number they provide.

Both users and developers benefit from passwordless authentication. Users frequently select weak passwords and reuse the same password across multiple services. We can conclude from this that users prefer convenience over security. Many developers make the logical decision to enforce stricter password requirements, but this frequently irritates users. Passwords must be securely encrypted and stored by developers, and even if all best practices are followed, a user who reuses the password on a third-party service that is compromised is also vulnerable in your application.

Who Uses Passwordless?
Today mostly all new companies, have already adopted passwordless authentication. Passwordless authentication is common in both web and mobile applications, and it is especially well-suited for mobile because the user is frequently on their device, which will receive the one-time passcode, resulting in a very intuitive workflow.
As a company that is not part of the big corporations, you kind of not allowed to ask from your users to register with username and password, because asking your users to create “new identity” while they already have a few.

What We’ll Create
In this article, we’ll learn about passwordless authentication and how it provides a simple and secure workflow for user authentication. We’ll go over how passwordless authentication works, the benefits it offers, and how to put theory into practice by implementing it in a Vue application.

At the end of this article you will have a popup that can authenticate your users with all types of social networks and wallets at once

2. Make your very first entity by clicking on “Add Project” on the creators’ home screen. A project can be a website or app.

3. After creating the entity, you will see “Add Access” on the entity page. Begin by creating the access points you want us to manage; it can be “login” or “premium package” or anything that gives your users/clients access to resources.

Server Side

If you use Eartho with an app or site that communicates with a backend server, you can protect your routes easily by our SDK as well. After your users finish logging in with Eartho, they’ll be returned to your application at the callback route.

Because it simplifies login for users and can boost overall security, passwordless authentication is a perfect replacement for the conventional username and password auth. Constructing a passwordless authentication procedure from scratch might be challenging, but Eartho makes it simple as we’ve shown by building a Vue app in this article. We have a lot of freedom with Eartho because it lets us combine different authentication schemes to suit our organizational needs.

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