Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices

'The FIDO Alliance -- a consortium that develops open source
authentication standards -- has been pushing to expand its secure
login protocols to make seamless logins a reality for several years.
Today, it has hit the jackpot: Google. From a report:

On Monday, Google and the FIDO Alliance announced that Android has
added certified support for the FIDO2 standard, meaning that the vast
majority of devices running Android 7 or later will now be able to
handle password-less logins in mobile browsers like Chrome. Android
already offered secure FIDO login options for mobile apps, where you
authenticate using a phone's fingerprint scanner or with a hardware
dongle like a YubiKey. But FIDO2 support will make it possible to use
these easy authentication steps for web services in a mobile browser
instead of laboriously typing in your password every time you want to
log in. Web developers can now design their sites to interact with
Android's FIDO2 management infrastructure.'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/02/25/1440241

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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