The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the FIDO Alliance recently announced that Web Authentication (WebAuthn) has become an official Web standard. WebAuthn was announced by W3C and the FIDO Alliance in November 2015, and has now become an open standard for passwordless login online.

The specification allows users to log in to online accounts using biometrics, mobile devices, and/or FIDO security keys. Android and Windows 10 already support WebAuthn. On the browser side, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge browsers all started supporting WebAuthn last year. Since last December, Apple has supported WebAuthn in preview versions of Safari.

WebAuthn has already been implemented on websites such as Dropbox, Facebook, GitHub, Salesforce, Stripe, and Twitter. WebAuthn is an official standard, and the W3C hopes other websites will also join in, enabling more passwordless logins across the entire web.

Test address:https://webauthn.org/

Open source library:https://webauthn.io/

We only need to enter a name, and then a pop-up will appear with USB security keys and built-in sensors. You can just choose the features your device supports. Apple computers can generally use the built-in sensors.