Web Authentication Working Group

Web Authentication Working Group
AbbreviationWebAuthn WG
FormationFebruary 17, 2016 (2016-02-17)
Legal statusWorking group
Leader
  • John Fontana
  • Anthony Nadalin
Parent organization
W3C
WebsiteOfficial website
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The Web Authentication Working Group, created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on February 17, 2016, has for mission, in the Security Activity, to define a client-side API providing strong authentication functionality to Web Applications.

On 20 March 2018, the WebAuthn standard was published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.