{"id":2160,"date":"2021-04-14T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2021-10-25T15:33:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T22:33:47","slug":"second-version-of-w3c-web-authentication-webauthn-now-a-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"Second Version of W3C Web Authentication (WebAuthn) Now a Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"plain\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/images\/w3c_home.png\" alt=\"W3C logo\"><\/a><\/span>The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2021\/REC-webauthn-2-20210408\/\">Recommendation<\/a> for the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) Level 2 specification, meaning that it now a completed standard.  While remaining compatible with the original standard, this second version adds additional features, among them for user verification enhancements, manageability, enterprise features, and an Apple attestation format.  The companion second FIDO2 Client to Authenticator Protocol (CTAP) specification is also <a href=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=2155\">approaching becoming a completed standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/webauthn\/2021\/04\/08\/webauthn-level-2-is-a-w3c-recommendation\/\">W3C announcement of this achievement<\/a>.  Also, see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timcappalli\">Tim Cappalli<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/identity-standards-blog\/what-s-new-in-passwordless-standards-2021-edition\/ba-p\/2124136\">summary of the changes in the second versions of WebAuthn and FIDO2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published this Recommendation for the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) Level 2 specification, meaning that it now a completed standard. While remaining compatible with the original standard, this second version adds additional features, among them for user verification enhancements, manageability, enterprise features, and an Apple attestation format. The companion second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,34,19,21,25,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptography","category-fido","category-phishing-resistance","category-privacy","category-specifications","category-w3c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","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=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}