LDAPWiki: WebAuthN

Overview#

Some other user Abbreviations within WebAuthN:

FIDO — Fast IDentity Online, or FIDO Alliance. is a consortium that develops secure, open, phishing proof, Passwordless Authentication standards. FIDO Protocol Family is a set of protocol that was developed by FIDO Alliance.
UAF — Universal Authentication Framework
U2F — Universal Second Factor
FIDO2 - generally implies "Use any of the three protocols"
CTAP — Client To Authenticator Protocols — A set of low level protocols to communicate with the WebAuthn Authenticators over the BLE/NFC/USB. CTAP family includes CTAP1 and CTAP2 protocols.
- CTAP1 — A formal name of U2F protocol.
- CTAP2 — A name for second version of the CTAP protocol. The main characteristic is use of CBOR for encoding structures, backwards compatibility with CTAP1(U2F), extensions and new attestation formats. Both CTAP1 and CTAP2 share same transport layer, so the version difference is mainly the structural.
WebAuthN — A browser JavaScript API that describes an interface for creating and managing Public Key credentials.

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