Yahoo supports Touch ID / Windows Hello login on a computer

Yahoo supports login by biological authentication using fingerprint and face authentication, regarding access from PCs such as Windows and Mac.Compatible with Microsoft's "Windows Hello" and Apple's "Touch ID", and login processing is based on the "FIDO2" standard formulated by the international organization "FIDO Alliance".

The operating environment of fingerprint and face authentication is a terminal that can set Windows Hello (face recognition, fingerprint authentication, PIN) for Windows, and is a browser of Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox.In the case of a Mac, it is a device that can set a Touch ID in a version of MacOS 11 (Big Sur) or higher, and is a browser of Google Chrome or Safari.

To use biometric authentication, you need to set up on a personal computer you are using in advance.The terminal registration and authentication are required on the "Settings such as fingerprints and face authentication" page.Along with the biometric authentication settings, users who have logged in with passwords are also recommending "password disabled settings".

When logging in from the terminal registered in advance settings, biometric authentication is automatically enabled, so that it is authenticated according to the instructions on the screen.

The company "from both convenience and safety", such as the complexity of the management of the conventional ID and password, and the increase in "password -list attacks" that attempts to log in with the list of ID and passwords."The need for a generational certification method" has increased, and has been supported by biological authentication and SMS login when using smartphone apps and browsers.

Until now, it was necessary to prepare a smartphone and use SMS authentication in order to authenticate without using a password from a personal computer, but with this biometric authentication, it is possible to use a certification method that does not easily use a password. It became so.