{"id":6109,"date":"2018-04-11T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2018-04-11T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:25:08","slug":"web-authentication-api-aims-to-make-passwords-unnecessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/web-authentication-api-aims-to-make-passwords-unnecessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Authentication API aims to make passwords unnecessary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Web Authentication API aims to make passwords unnecessary<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Read more at – Web Authentication API aims to make passwords unnecessary<\/a><\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,6],"tags":[209,1345,46],"class_list":["post-6109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-space","category-news","tag-api","tag-iam-solutions","tag-password"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-1Ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6110,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions\/6110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}