From 1fc7ffe7da50cc7b75255c65fb0f803223a5a492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=E2=A7=89=20infominer?= Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:15:33 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add description \ excerpt --- .../w3c/working-groups/webauthn/2020-01-09-webauthn.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/_posts/web-standards/w3c/working-groups/webauthn/2020-01-09-webauthn.md b/_posts/web-standards/w3c/working-groups/webauthn/2020-01-09-webauthn.md index fe478600..658bc1ee 100644 --- a/_posts/web-standards/w3c/working-groups/webauthn/2020-01-09-webauthn.md +++ b/_posts/web-standards/w3c/working-groups/webauthn/2020-01-09-webauthn.md @@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ --- title: WebAuthN Working Group categories: ["Web Standards"] +description: Allows users to register and authenticate on websites or mobile apps using an "authenticator" instead of a password. +excerpt: > + The Web Authentication Working Group will develop recommendation-track specifications defining an API, as well as signature and attestation formats which provide an asymmetric cryptography-based foundation for authentication of users to Web Applications. + + Overall goals include obviating the use of shared secrets, i.e. passwords, as authentication credentials, facilitating multi-factor authentication support as well as hardware-based key storage while respecting the Same Origin Policy (SOP) by default and allowing for explicit, constrained SOP relaxation. tags: ["W3C","WebAuthN", "Microsoft","FIDO"] permalink: web-standards/w3c/wg/webauthn/ redirect_from: