Author: Shannon Liao
Google announced today that any phone running Android 7 or higher can now be used as a physical security key for two-factor authentication, giving you an even more secure way to log into Google apps than several other existing 2FA methods that Google provides right now. So when if you want a physical device to verify your login, you don’t have to buy a dongle — you can just use your phone.
To make your Android phone your security key, you’ll just need to connect your phone through Bluetooth to a Chrome browser to verify logins. (Some older desktop PCs don’t have Bluetooth, but it’s pretty universal on laptops.) The new authentication scheme works on Gmail, G Suite, Google Cloud, and any other Google account service, and uses the FIDO...
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Google announced today that any phone running Android 7 or higher can now be used as a physical security key for two-factor authentication, giving you an even more secure way to log into Google apps than several other existing 2FA methods that Google provides right now. So when if you want a physical device to verify your login, you don’t have to buy a dongle — you can just use your phone.
To make your Android phone your security key, you’ll just need to connect your phone through Bluetooth to a Chrome browser to verify logins. (Some older desktop PCs don’t have Bluetooth, but it’s pretty universal on laptops.) The new authentication scheme works on Gmail, G Suite, Google Cloud, and any other Google account service, and uses the FIDO...
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