The Web Authentication Working Group, created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on February 17, 2016, has for mission, in the Security Activity, to define a client-side API providing strong authentication functionality to Web Applications.[1]
On 20 March 2018, the WebAuthn standard was published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.[2]
References
- 1 2 "Web Authentication Working Group Charter". W3C. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
- ↑ "Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials - Level 2". www.w3.org. Archived from the original on March 27, 2018. Retrieved April 12, 2018.