Overview#

Passwordless Authentication is an Authentication Method method in which a entity can Authenticate to a Operating System, Application or other system without the entering (and remembering) a password or any other Knowledge Factor-secret.

WebAuthN (Web Authentication API) is a standard for to eliminate Password-based Browser Authentication

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• FIDO2
• U2F device
• WebAuthN

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• [#1] - Passwordless_authentication - based on information obtained 2020-11-28