The World Wide Web Consortium has presented a new standard for authentication on websites. According to the Chip portal soon on some of the pages we will be able to log in to our user profiles the same way we do on our smartphones - with biometric data replacing regular passwords.

The system will allow to unlock encrypted services through use of hardware keys connected to the USB port. This proposed solution is much more secure than the regular internet passwords used by many users, such as (in)famous 1234.

New standards were already introduced by Microsoft and Dropbox, among others. It is possible, that soon biometrics will completely replace traditional passwords.