I'm adding my Yubikey in my windows settings. I will also use mine for GPG and maybe even PIV, but first things first. Browse free.So I got some Yubikeys because my family are terrible about maintaining passwords and windows hello pins, to at least force them to have some semblance of security. Tags: Authentication, Biometrics, Crypto, Crypto Engineering, Web Authentication, WebAuthn Browse fast. You’ll need to use t he “fast” ring of updates.
If you want to try the Windows Hello support in Firefox 66 on Windows 10 before the April 2019 update is released, you can do so via the Windows Insider program. You can try it out at a variety of demo sites:, ,, , or learn more about it on MDN. If you haven’t used Web Authentication yet, adoption by major websites is underway. We will continue work toward providing CTAP2/FIDO2 support on all of our other platforms, including older versions of Windows.įor Firefox ESR users, this Windows Hello support is currently planned for ESR 60.0.7, being released mid-May.
We thank him for making this feature happen, and the Windows team for ensuring that all the Web Authentication features of Windows Hello were available to Firefox users.įor Firefox users running older versions of Windows, Web Authentication will continue to use our Rust-implemented CTAP1 protocol support for U2F-style USB security keys. Try it out and give us feedback on your experience.įor the rest of Firefox users on Windows 10, the upcoming update this spring will enable this automatically.Īkshay Kumar from Microsoft’s Windows Security Team contributed this support to Firefox. That includes face or fingerprint biometrics, and a wide range of external security keys via the CTAP2 protocol from FIDO2, as well as existing deployed CTAP1 FIDO U2F-style security keys. As of today, Firefox users on the Windows Insider Program’s fast ring can use any authentication mechanism supported by Windows for websites via Firefox.
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