• Yubico proposes WebAuthn protocol extension to simplify backup security keys One of the most common questions people have about YubiKeys, and security keys in general, is: “What if I lose my key?”  While WebAuthn and FIDO2, the open standards for security key authentication, promise strong, phishing-resistant and — perhaps most importantly — easy-to-use multi-factor authentication, this question still remains. As of today, there are no answers that […] Read more
• Authentication standards Expanding authentication options Passwordless authentication Eliminate weak password-based authentication and replace with strong single factor authentication using a hardware authenticator. Two-factor authentication (2FA) Experience strong two-factor authentication using a hardware authenticator as an extra layer of protection beyond a password. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) Achieve the highest levels of security with strong multi-factor authentication using a […] Read more
• Exploring clientDataJSON in WebAuthn Calling all developers! Today, we’re kicking off our first-ever post in our new technical blog series specifically designed for our developer community. Each month, we will be selecting a new technical topic to cover in more depth. To start our series, we dive into the clientDataJSON object as part of the Web Authentication or WebAuthn […] Read more
• 5 reasons why the government and other public sector agencies should care about WebAuthn Federal, state and local governments and other public sector agencies have important responsibilities that support a functioning community – everything from national security to public transit, public education, public safety, state parks, financial services, energy and power grids, and many more services are all tax funded and managed by the public sector. While these are […] Read more
• Staying safe in our physical and digital worlds Most of our lives are now connected on the internet. We stay in touch with our loved ones, order food, talk to our doctors, do our banking — and now, many of us also work from home. We are all facing challenges we did not predict a few weeks ago. Never before has our society […] Read more
• Why we designed the YubiKey the way we did The first YubiKey was launched in 2008, inspired by the word ‘ubiquity’ and with the mission to make simple and secure logins available for everyone. At the time, we were less than 10 people in the company, but our strategy was simple: if we focused on further developing the YubiKey technology in close collaboration with […] Read more
• Native support for WebAuthn and FIDO is finally here on iPhones and iPads Yubico was founded with the mission of making simple and secure logins ubiquitous. In 2008, we launched the first YubiKey for seamless, one-touch authentication. In 2012, in close collaboration with Google, Yubico’s inventions evolved into the FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) open authentication standard, and in 2014 it was launched in Gmail and Chrome. In […] Read more
• The WebAuthn standard: why it matters and how it works WebAuthn makes fast and easy authentication a reality. Read more
• WebAuthn sees rapid growth and adoption: Visit us at Identiverse to see WebAuthn in action The new web authentication standard, known as WebAuthn, was recently approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in March, and is rapidly gaining momentum. Since 2007, Yubico has been driving the development of open standards, and collaborating with partners to bring more secure authentication methods to users.  Through these combined efforts, we co-created WebAuthn. […] Read more
• 1Password rolls out WebAuthn, and enhanced YubiKey support Yubico has been a major contributor to the development of open standards for authentication from the initial development of the U2F specification to the latest W3C approved WebAuthn. As we see more services upgrade to modern authentication standards, we can’t help but share in the excitement. We are thrilled to share that 1Password, a password […] Read more