FIDO U2F

Full Title or Meme

A family of standard for adding more factors to an existing interchange.

Context

This spec is partially succeeded by Web Authentication.

Solutions

• Universal Serial Bus (USB) tokens are now widely available, most allow late binding of the user to the Web Site that requires this factor of Authentication.

"Why Johnny Doesn’t Use Two Factor: A Two-Phase Usability Study of the FIDO U2F Security Key" https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/111.pdf

References

• Angelo Liao +1, Introducing Web Authentication in Microsoft Edge. (2018-07-30) Microsoft https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/07/30/introducing-web-authentication-microsoft-edge/
• Also see the page FIDO UAF for the Universal Authentication description.

FIDO Index of /specs/ https://fidoalliance.org/specs/