March 4, 2019

VentureBeat: W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins

VentureBeat reports that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today declared that the Web Authentication API (WebAuthn) is now an official web standard. First announced by the W3C and the FIDO Alliance in November 2015, WebAuthn is now an open standard for password-free logins on the web.

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