Secure Passkeys vs WP-WebAuthn

Secure Passkeys is a powerful WordPress plugin that enables seamless passwordless authentication using WebAuthn technology. By eliminating the need for traditional passwords, it enhances security and improves the user login experience. With support for biometric authentication, security keys, and device-bound credentials, Secure Passkey provides a robust and user-friendly solution for modern authentication. Unlike traditional password-based authentication, Secure Passkey leverages cryptographic key pairs to ensure secure logins. The private key remains securely stored on the user’s device, while the public key is registered with the WordPress site. This method protects against phishing attacks and password breaches, ensuring that only authorized users can gain access. Secure Passkeys integrates effortlessly into WordPress, allowing users to register and manage their passkeys from their profile settings. Once registered, users can log in using their fingerprint, face recognition, or a hardware security key without the need to remember or enter a password. Features Passwordless Login: Secure authentication via WebAuthn with biometric devices, security keys, Touch ID, Face ID, and more. Enhanced User Experience: Password-free login for a smoother user journey. Integration Support: WordPress default login form WooCommerce login page MemberPress login form Easy Digital Downloads login form Ultimate Member login form Admin Management: Administrators can delete, activate, or deactivate users directly from plugin settings or user profiles. Passkeys Reminder Notice: New option to enable or disable the passkeys reminder notice in the WordPress admin area for users who have not yet enabled passkeys. Activity Logging: Monitor activity logs and track last login/registration of passkeys. Multiple Passkeys: Supports multiple passkey registrations per user, with the option to set a registration limit or allow unlimited registrations. Role Restrictions: Restrict and exclude specific user roles from using passkey authentication. Passkey Autofill: Passkeys automatically appear as a suggestion when clicking the username field — no button click required. Rate Limiting: Configurable rate limiting on login attempts to protect against automated attacks. Long-lived Session: Control whether passkey logins set a persistent session cookie or end when the browser is closed. Customizable Settings: Adjust timeout settings for passkey registration and login. User Verification: Enforce user verification for enhanced security. Frontend Customization: Easily customize frontend themes or add your own with basic frontend skills. Theme Support: Supports pre-built themes like YOOtheme (UIkit) for frontend shortcodes. Shortcodes: Embed passkey login and registration forms on custom frontend pages. Passkey Display: Show passkey details in admin user lists and profiles. Multisite: Supports WordPress Multisite and single-site installations. Database Optimization: Option to allow or disallow automatic deletion of old challenge records and activity logs (configurable schedule). Requirements WordPress 6.0 or newer. PHP version 7.4 or newer. License Secure Passkeys is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later.

WebAuthn is a new way for you to authenticate in web. It helps you replace your passwords with devices like Passkeys, USB Keys, fingerprint scanners, Windows Hello compatible cameras, FaceID/TouchID and more. Using WebAuthn, you can login to your a website with a glance or touch. When using WebAuthn, you just need to click once and perform a simple verification on the authenticator, then you are logged in. No password needed. If your device supports Passkey, your authenticator can roam seamlessly across multiple devices for a more convenient login experience. WP-WebAuthn is a plug-in for WordPress to enable WebAuthn on your site. Just download and install it, and you are in the future of web authentication. WP-WebAuthn also supports usernameless authentication. This plugin has 4 built-in shortcodes and 4 built-in Gutenberg blocks, so you can add components like register form to frontend pages. Please refer to the documentation before using the plugin. This plugin currently has BETA multisite support, if you find any issue in multisite, feel free to open an issue on GitHub. PHP extensions gmp and mbstring are required. WebAuthn requires HTTPS connection or localhost to function normally. You can contribute to this plugin on GitHub. Please note that this plugin does NOT support Internet Explorer (including IE 11). To use FaceID or TouchID, you need to use iOS/iPadOS 14+. Security and Privacy WebAuthn has become a W3C Recommendation since March 2019, which enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users using hardware authenticators. WebAuthn focuses on both security and privacy, it offers the possibility to create a secure authentication process without having to transfer any private data such as recognition data and fingerprint data. It will be the future of web authentication. GDPR Friendly When authenticating with WebAuthn, no private data will leave user’s device and no third-party involvement. The credentials transferred are not associate to any user’s information but only for authentication. It’s GDPR Friendly.