Today, the W3C and the FIDO Alliance standards body announced that web browsers are building a new way to log in. The new open standard, presented as WebAuthn, will be supported in the latest version of Firefox and will be supported in versions of Chrome and Edge that will be released in the coming months. It's the latest move in years to move users away from passwords and toward more secure ways to log in, like biometrics and USB tokens.
The system is already in place on major services like Google and Facebook, where you can log in with a FIDO-compliant Yubikey device.
WebAuthn will undoubtedly accelerate the implementation of secure logins, whether using these technologies as a backup login method or replacing passwords entirely. As more open source code is written for the new standard, it will be easier for developers to implement new login methods.
"Previously, the USB token login model was only used by big companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook," said Selena Deckelmann, who worked on Firefox. "Now, with WebAuthn, more users will be able to experience secure login."
Because the FIDO standard is built on zero-knowledge, no single string of characters guarantees access to an account, making traditional phishing attacks more difficult. It provides security-conscious users and businesses an important way to protect themselves. The number of FIDO-ready users will grow as more services move to support more secure login methods.
Deckelmann said: "It can really avoid security risks, but we are not there yet, and this will be our bright future."
*Source: cnBeta.COM
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(Information comes from the Internet, Anwar Jin and collection and arrangement)