An industry consortium that develops open authentication standards—UAF, U2F, FIDO2, and WebAuthn—designed to replace passwords with phishing-resistant public-key cryptography, enabling strong authentication across browsers, devices, and online services.
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- The FIDO Alliance is a consortium of technology firms and other organisations that develops open specifications for strong, phishing-resistant authentication. Its standards use public key cryptography so that secret credentials are not transmitted or stored on servers.
- The alliance’s specifications underpin passwordless and multi-factor authentication schemes adopted across browsers, operating systems and online services. They are designed to interoperate across devices and platforms.