Web Authentication API aims to make passwords unnecessary

Passwords are kind of a pain. You probably have sign-in credentials for about a million services, and ideally, they’re all different. Password managers can help, but they’re often finicky. A new standard by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) called Web Authentication API could simplify your digital life by allowing for password-free sign-ins across a wide variety of websites.

Instead of entering a password, users use their phone’s registered unlock method, be it PIN, pattern, or fingerprint. A paper on the project by the W3C is publicly available, if you want to read about it in-depth.

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