Something important happened in the world of passwords this week – Firefox 60 has become the first browser to support a new standard called Web Authentication (WebAuthn). Developed as a joint effort by the industry FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) on the back of Universal Authentication Factor (UAF), WebAuthn is an API which deploys public key encryption to let users log into websites without needing a password.

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