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Revision as of 15:52, 20 February 2020

Full Title or Meme

A standard[1][2] for adding more factors to a Web Authentication that is occasionaly referred to as FIDO2.

Context

This is, in effect, a follow-on to the FIDO U2F standard and maintains some back-wards compatibility with it.

Problems

  1. Web AuthN requires updates to the user's browsers to function.

Solutions

Web Browsers that support Web Authn

  • Microsoft Edge[3]

References

  1. Dirk Balfanz +11, Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 1. for editors draft https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/
  2. W3C Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 1 For current date, see latest published version: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/
  3. 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/