The social network Twitter already allows its users to identify themselves when entering their accounts with a new form of verification in two steps, using only physical security keys, both in its web version and in its mobile app.

The network, since December last year, allowed the use of physical security keys as one of the forms for two-factor identification, so that it functioned as an additional layer of security in addition to passwords. It was also possible to configure several different keys.

Now, as announced in their official support account, the physical security mechanism can be used as the only verification method to access accounts on the web and on mobile devices, in cases where two-step authentication is activated.

Twitter recommended that its users enable two-step verification on their accounts to improve security, and has specifically advocated the use of physical security keys as the “most effective” method.

These physical devices have security mechanisms to ensure that, even if they are used to access a phishing site, the shared information cannot be used to enter the user’s account.

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Source: La Voz

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The Twitter platform began to support the use of multiple security keys for the two-factor identification process, and will soon allow users to log into their accounts only through this mechanism.

At the end of 2020, Twitter introduced support for physical security keys in its version for Android and iOS mobiles. The ‘microblogging’ platform thus allows one of these physical devices to be used as an additional verification of identity, but still requires one more method.

However, it will soon be possible to use only a security key to validate yourself in a Twitter account, without the need to use other means, as indicated by the social network in the official profile of its support.

Likewise, the platform also indicated that it is already possible for Twitter users to use several different security keys in the current two-step authentication process.

This new security feature will be available both in the mobile version of Twitter and on its website.

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Source: Zonamovilidad

La entrada Twitter will soon accept security keys for identification apareció primero en Bitfinance.