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May 9, 2018 07:25 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Hn7QqA7Vejk/firefox-moves-browsers-into-post-password-future-with-webauthn-tech
Firefox Moves Browsers Into Post-Password Future With WebAuthn Tech
Today, Mozilla released Firefox 60 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android, and with it arrives Web Authentication API for desktop browsers. From a report: Firefox 60 supports technology called Web Authentication, or WebAuthn for short, that can be used to grant you access to websites with a physical authentication device like a YubiKey dongle, biometric identity proof using an Android phone's fingerprint reader or the iPhone's Face ID, and some other alternatives to passwords. Passwords are a particular problem on the web. Fake websites can coax you to type in credentials that then can be used to steal money from your bank account or snoop your email -- a problem called phishing. Even if you pick hard-to-guess passwords, never reuse them on multiple sites and always remember them, passwords still aren't that strong a foundation for security these days. We're still a long way away from a post-password future, but WebAuthn is an important step, if nothing else, in making sites more secure.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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