FIDO Alliance
Fast IDentity Online
• Formed in 2012 to create
a new industry standard
• Initially worked on a Password-less protocol
• U2F started by Google, Yubico and NXP in
2011 and joined FIDO in 2013
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Universal 2nd Factor
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The Promise of U2F
It Just Works! *
* in Google Chrome for now
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Stina
Ehrensvard
CEO & Founder
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July 2015
A feature plugin was approved for core.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/two-factor/
December 2015
“We can’t have users lock themselves out”
January 2016
Decided to work only on Application Passwords to
meet the 4.5 cycle (April 2016).
Join #core-passwords on WordPress Slack!
Two Step in WordPress Core
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https://twofactorauth.org
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Get Your U2F Key
Yubico.com Coupon Code:
wordcamp2016-100yk4