ArsTechnica reports that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance announced that a new spec, WebAuthn (“Web Authentication”) has been promoted to the Candidate Recommendation stage, the penultimate stage in the web standards process.


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The Verge: Chrome and Firefox will support a new standard for password-free logins

In his reporting on the newly announced FIDO2 Project, The Verge reporter Russell Brandon predicts…

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CNET: Password-free web security is coming to Chrome, Firefox, Edge

CNET reports that leading browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge will support WebAuthn…

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Engadget: Web standard brings password-free sign-ins to virtually any site

Tech companies have been trying to do away with web passwords for years, but now…

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