The FIDO Alliance is launching a new Developer Challenge that asks teams to come up with new and innovative ways to use the FIDO2 WebAuthn API. Teams can submit solutions for virtually any field, but they should all try to use FIDO authentication technologies to address some kind of social or technical concern.


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Spark, CBC Radio: Forget the password. No, really! They’re about to become obsolete

FIDO Executive Director Brett McDowell tells radio host Nora Young how WebAuthn is bringing simpler,…

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The Canadian Press: Death of the password? New web standard trades passcodes for biometrics

The Canadian Press reports that experts are “excited about the prospect of making logins “unphishable””…

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The Guardian: RIP passwords: new web standard designed to replace login method

In this article, The Guardian’s Samuel Gibbs reports that “WebAuthn will eliminate need for passwords…

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