- From: Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:21:42 -0700
- To: public-credentials@w3.org
Greetings, The Guardian yesterday had a story of what appears to be a major announcement about how WebAuthn will replace passwords: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/11/passwords-webauthn-new-web-standard-designed-replace-login-method This included a quote showing that this is a W3C project: “WebAuthn will change the way that people access the Web,” said Jeff Jaffe, chief executive of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body that controls web standards." And after looking at the recent API spec itself, I see that it's a FIDO project, and so supported by Google, Microsoft, Paypal, and also Mozilla: http://www.w3.org/TR/2018/CR-webauthn-20180320/ My Question: Is there any expected or known relationship between WebAuthn and the use of DIDs? ie., Can WebAuthn be used with DIDs? Will the uptake of WebAuthn preclude or inhibit the use of DIDs? ie., Are DID Docs and WebAuthn in competition, or are they complementary? Steven
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