Now your Chrome browser on Android can be the best security key in the world.
Logging in to our accounts is not like before, and most services and applications even ask for one two-step verification to further safeguard our security, and so that we stop seeing these credential leaks as they have been happening in the last decades.
Two-factor authentication is quite common, having to enter our credentials and then a second step, for example, where we must also enter a code sent by SMS to our mobile phone, although we could also use some kind of security key. But if you don’t like physical security keys, maybe your Chrome for Android can act as one of them.
And is that now Google wants you to be able to log in using your browser, specifically Chrome on Android, a feature that is currently in beta, a bit green, but could reach the stable version in the coming months.
Basically the important change that we would have regarding the two-step verification that you already know, is that a second step is requested in the login, where we would jump directly to the Chrome of the nearby Android mobile. In this way, it would not even need an Internet connection in the browser to accept the login, since the process would be carried out simply by proximity using Bluetooth low energy applied to the cloud, known as cable.
To test it you need beta version 93 for Chrome on Android and then activate the chrome: // flags / # enable-web-authentication-cable-v2-support flag.
Once enabled, It also requires having Google’s two-factor verification activated and see if the process works by automatically jumping to the nearby Android mobile through the browser.
As you can see, Google wants you to log in in a much more secure way, although we will see if the public ends up agreeing to have to activate another second step in their login.