Passkeys are a new form of sign-in and phishing resistant credential that make it easier to protect your GitHub account by reducing use of passwords and other, more easily phishable authentication methods. All users on GitHub.com can use passkeys to protect their account. This continues our commitment to securing all contributors with 2FA by the end of 2023 and strengthening security across the platform—without compromising user experience. Read on to learn about how to enable passkeys on your GitHub account. And, for those of you also building authentication experiences, we share what we’ve learned about how to roll out and make passkeys easy to use to help you integrate this powerful new credential method more quickly in your service.
