Just after the calendar turned over on World Password Day, the group working to replace old logins with new ones quietly shifted the conversation. Instead of celebrating a fading security ritual, they proposed a change in name and focus. The FIDO Alliance wants people to think less about passwords and more about what replaces them. The idea now being floated is World Passkey Day, a sign of how far the conversation around secure sign-ins has come.
Along with this change in tone came a global study aimed at measuring the momentum behind passkeys. According to the results, most adults surveyed in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and China now know what passkeys are. That number has moved up fast. Last fall, just over half of respondents said they had heard of the term. Now, three out of four people recognize it.
When asked how many had actually used passkeys, the numbers split into two directions. Globally, about three in ten people had enabled them at least once. Slightly more said they had set them up wherever the option existed. In the United States, those figures came in at nearly 43 percent for single-use and 23 percent for full coverage.
Not every country followed the same curve. China, for example, showed a wide gap. Nearly 67 percent claimed they used passkeys across all platforms where it was possible. Yet only 29 percent said they had used them on even one account. In the United Kingdom, just over a quarter had used them once, while almost 39 percent had adopted them across all platforms. This mismatch comes down to how the survey was built. Respondents were asked to pick only one answer, even if more than one applied. That forced some to make a choice between saying they used it once or everywhere, even when both might be true.
Other parts of the survey looked at how people feel about this newer form of authentication. About a quarter said passkeys felt much safer than passwords. Another third felt somewhat safer. But a similar share simply didn’t know. On the question of convenience, the answers followed the same pattern. Around half felt that passkeys made things easier. One in five remained unsure.
The data came from an online poll conducted mid-April with nearly 1,400 adults. All were selected from a large pool of people already participating in surveys. The margin of error landed at just over three percentage points.
Beyond the survey, the Alliance checked the websites people visit most. Almost half of the top 100 now support passkey login. In April, they launched something called the Passkey Pledge, which has already attracted support from more than 100 companies.
Even with that progress, the road ahead is uneven. While tech firms and cloud platforms move forward, some industries remain behind the curve. In fields like aviation, especially within the United States, support is so thin it seems many still have not asked the basic question of what a passkey is. That silence speaks volumes.
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Along with this change in tone came a global study aimed at measuring the momentum behind passkeys. According to the results, most adults surveyed in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and China now know what passkeys are. That number has moved up fast. Last fall, just over half of respondents said they had heard of the term. Now, three out of four people recognize it.
When asked how many had actually used passkeys, the numbers split into two directions. Globally, about three in ten people had enabled them at least once. Slightly more said they had set them up wherever the option existed. In the United States, those figures came in at nearly 43 percent for single-use and 23 percent for full coverage.
Not every country followed the same curve. China, for example, showed a wide gap. Nearly 67 percent claimed they used passkeys across all platforms where it was possible. Yet only 29 percent said they had used them on even one account. In the United Kingdom, just over a quarter had used them once, while almost 39 percent had adopted them across all platforms. This mismatch comes down to how the survey was built. Respondents were asked to pick only one answer, even if more than one applied. That forced some to make a choice between saying they used it once or everywhere, even when both might be true.
Other parts of the survey looked at how people feel about this newer form of authentication. About a quarter said passkeys felt much safer than passwords. Another third felt somewhat safer. But a similar share simply didn’t know. On the question of convenience, the answers followed the same pattern. Around half felt that passkeys made things easier. One in five remained unsure.
The data came from an online poll conducted mid-April with nearly 1,400 adults. All were selected from a large pool of people already participating in surveys. The margin of error landed at just over three percentage points.
Beyond the survey, the Alliance checked the websites people visit most. Almost half of the top 100 now support passkey login. In April, they launched something called the Passkey Pledge, which has already attracted support from more than 100 companies.
Even with that progress, the road ahead is uneven. While tech firms and cloud platforms move forward, some industries remain behind the curve. In fields like aviation, especially within the United States, support is so thin it seems many still have not asked the basic question of what a passkey is. That silence speaks volumes.
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