Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization behind all web standards, has formally promoted the Web Authentication API to the title of official web standard. This promotion means the ...

The Internet began without an identity layer and has suffered since with a password retrofit, but new open, standards-based innovations for protecting log-ins to applications on the web, desktop, and ...

With strong support from Google, Microsoft and other vendors, WebAuthN is poised to become a true standard for passwordless authentication over the web. For decades we’ve been trying to replace the ...

A look at the recently released YubiKey 5 hardware authenticator series and how web authentication with the new WebAuthn API leverages devices like the YubiKey for painless website registration and ...

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