Inside FIDO Alliance’s vision of a future free of passwords
Inside FIDO Alliance’s vision of a future free of passwords What is FIDO2? To solve the problem of authentication through passwords, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance came up with the FIDO2 standard. It’s a combination of W3C’s Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification and FIDO Alliance’s corresponding Client-to-Authenticator Protocol (CTAP). This allows you to use your phone or laptop to identify yourself safely to a web service. To reduce the risk of phishing or any other attacks, the FIDO2 method doesn’t involve storing your credentials on a server....