{"id":1791,"date":"2018-03-06T22:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T06:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2018-03-06T22:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T06:32:05","slug":"w3c-web-authentication-webauthn-specification-almost-a-candidate-recommendation-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=1791","title":{"rendered":"W3C Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification almost a Candidate Recommendation (CR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"plain\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/images\/w3c_home.png\" alt=\"W3C logo\" \/><\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2018\/WD-webauthn-20180306\/\">The eighth working draft of the W3C Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification<\/a> has been published.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/webauthn\/\">WebAuthn working group<\/a> plans to submit this draft for approval by the W3C Director (Tim Berners-Lee) to become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2018\/Process-20180201\/#candidate-rec\">W3C Candidate Recommendation (CR)<\/a>, after a few days&#8217; review by the working group.<\/p>\n<p>This milestone represents a huge step towards enabling logins to occur using public\/private key pairs securely held by authenticators, rather than passwords.  Its contents have been informed by what we learned during several rounds of interop testing by multiple browser and authenticator vendors.  The Web Authentication spec has also progressed in parallel with and been kept in sync with the FIDO 2 Client To Authenticator Protocol (CTAP) specification, so that they work well together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eighth working draft of the W3C Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification has been published. The WebAuthn working group plans to submit this draft for approval by the W3C Director (Tim Berners-Lee) to become a W3C Candidate Recommendation (CR), after a few days&#8217; review by the working group. This milestone represents a huge step towards enabling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,19,25,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptography","category-phishing-resistance","category-specifications","category-w3c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}