Web Authentication Working Group
| Abbreviation | WebAuthn WG | 
|---|---|
| Formation | February 17, 2016 | 
| Legal status | Working group | 
| Purpose | Public-key cryptography APIs for the web | 
| Leader | 
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| Parent organization | W3C | 
| Website | Official website | 
The Web Authentication Working Group, created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on February 17, 2016, has for mission, in the Security Activity, to define a client-side API providing strong authentication functionality to Web Applications.
On 20 March 2018, the WebAuthn standard was published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.