Rogers adds support for passkeys, here’s how to secure your account

Good news, you can now use passkeys to log into your Rogers account.

For those unfamiliar with passkeys, they’re a relatively new secure passwordless login feature that uses cryptographic keys to authenticate users. These keys are generated on your device — websites get a public key, while the private key remains on your device.

When users visit a website or app, they can authenticate themselves using on-device using biometrics like face or fingerprint, and the device will use the private key to authenticate the user with the website or app.

The new security feature, spotted by u/CaptainHppo on the r/Rogers subreddit, can be spotted under an “update your passkeys” page within your Rogers account.

If you want to set one up, you can create a new passkey by signing out of MyRogers and signing back in. From there. You can follow the prompts labelled “Create a passkey.”

Interestingly, if you select “Don’t ask me again” when originally prompted during sign in, the process mentioned earlier will not be available. However, it appears you could still set them up from within your MyRogers account page.

Rogers notes that any biometric information used for registration and authentication stays on your device, and is actually not shared with or collected by the telecom giant — so if that was something that made you nervous about using passkeys, you’re in luck.

Another bonus that was pointed out by r/CaptainHppo, is that security keys are now allowed as well, which the user notes as being very difficult to bypass.

More and more Canadian companies, especially essential businesses like telecom and banks, are starting to support them. It was pointed out within the subreddit that Wealthsimple supports it, and fellow carrier Telus also supports passkeys.

Source: Reddit