fyi: Intent to Ship: Web Authentication

Of possible interest:

<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.platform/u2f%7Csort:date/mozilla.dev.platform/tsevyqfBHLE/1-nzuJ3OBAAJ>

From: "J.C. Jones" <j...@mozilla.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 13:44:46 -0700
Subject: Intent to Ship: Web Authentication
To: dev-pl...@lists.mozilla.org
Cc: "Taubert, Tim" <ttau...@mozilla.com>

Summary: Support public key cryptographic authentication devices
through Web Authentication.

Web Authentication is backward compatible with FIDO U2F second-factor
tokens, and also supports more advanced capabilities in future FIDO
2.0 devices. We intend to ship support for USB-connected FIDO U2F
devices initially, with other transports and FIDO 2.0 device support
to follow in 2018.

Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=webauthn

Spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/

(Note that the latest working draft,
https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-webauthn-20171205/, is considered by the
WG to be feature complete, and no more normative changes are
anticipated.)

Estimated target release: 60

Preference behind which this is implemented:
security.webauth.webauthn

DevTools support:
N/A

Support by other browser engines:
- Blink: In-progress [1]
- Edge: In-progress [2]
- Webkit: No public announcements

Testing:
Mochitests in-tree; https://webauthn.io/; https://webauthn.bin.coffee/
; Web Platform Tests in-progress


Cheers,
J.C. Jones and Tim Taubert

[1] https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5669923372138496
[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt697638(v=vs.85).aspx

Received on Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:00:12 UTC