The Web Authentication Working Group, created by the
World Wide Web Consortium
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(W3C) on February 17, 2016, has for mission, in the Security Activity, to define a client-side API providing strong authentication functionality to Web Applications.
On 20 March 2018, the
WebAuthn standard was published as a
W3C Candidate Recommendation.
References
World Wide Web Consortium
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