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Staying safe in our physical and digital worldsMost 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 […]
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Why we designed the YubiKey the way we didThe 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 […]
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Native support for WebAuthn and FIDO is finally here on iPhones and iPadsYubico 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 […]
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Introducing WebAuthn: enabling a streamlined and more secure user authentication experienceWebAuthn eliminates the need for creating and storing passwords in a central location.
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The WebAuthn standard: why it matters and how it worksWebAuthn makes fast and easy authentication a reality.
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WebAuthn sees rapid growth and adoption: Visit us at Identiverse to see WebAuthn in actionThe 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. […]
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1Password rolls out WebAuthn, and enhanced YubiKey supportYubico 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 […]
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5 Reasons to Upgrade Your Web Authentication to WebAuthnAuthentication has made significant progress over the past five years. It has matured beyond passwords with the introduction of a variety of two-factor authentication methods, and most recently, we have the advent of passwordless logins with WebAuthn, the new global standard for web authentication. WebAuthn now sets a new bar for user authentication and is […]
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WebAuthn wins support in Safari, Twitter, Coinbase and hundreds of more services“And the winner is… WebAuthn!” A few weeks ago at the European Identity Conference (EIC) in Munich, WebAuthn won the award for Best Future Technology and Standard Project. As a co-chair of the W3C WebAuthn working group and lead authors of FIDO U2F/FIDO2, Yubico was invited to receive the award on behalf of all who […]
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The YubiKey as the WebAuthn Root of TrustThe new web authentication standard, WebAuthn, that was recently announced by W3C, is rapidly gaining adoption by leading platforms and services. WebAuthn is an evolution of the FIDO U2F standard, spearheaded by Yubico and Google, and successfully deployed since 2014 by millions of users with YubiKey security keys. Yubico helped to create WebAuthn to extend […]
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