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What is the W3C?
What does the W3C do? W3C’s primary activity is to develop protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. W3C’s standards define key parts of what makes the World Wide Web work. Did W3C author Webauthn? Webauthn was developed under the umbrella of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Yubico along with Microsoft and […]
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What is a root of trust?
Why is a root of trust important? Today, you may have several devices that you use on a day-to-day basis to log into websites, services and applications. A WebAuthn root of trust, such as the one offered by a hardware security key, ensures that you can always authenticate to any website or service, across any platform, rapidly […]
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What is Web Authentication?
How does WebAuthn work? WebAuthn is an API that makes it very easy for a relying party, such as a web service, to integrate strong authentication into applications using support built in to all leading browsers and platforms. This means that web services can now easily offer their users strong authentication with a choice of […]
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Go passwordless with the new Yubico WebAuthn Starter KitWebAuthn is the latest open standard for modern online authentication that is highly phishing resistant, combining high security with a simple and easy user experience. With WebAuthn, any web service can integrate strong authentication into applications using support built-in to all leading browsers and platforms. This means that web services can now easily offer users […]
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Yubico proposes WebAuthn protocol extension to simplify backup security keysOne 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 […]
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Authentication standards
Making the internet safer for everyone Strong security Stolen credentials from employees, vendors and customers are at the root of the majority of account takeovers. The YubiKey provides advanced phishing protection to stop account takeovers. Ease of use The YubiKey is crush-resistant and water-resistant. It requires no battery or cellular network connectivity and its simple […]
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Exploring clientDataJSON in WebAuthnCalling 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 […]
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5 reasons why the government and other public sector agencies should care about WebAuthnFederal, 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 […]
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WebAuthn: Why It Should Matter to the Public Sector and How It WorksWebAuthn makes fast and easy authentication a reality.
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Introducing WebAuthn: Enabling a Streamlined and More Secure User Authentication Experience for the Public SectorWebAuthn eliminates the need for creating and storing passwords in a central location.
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