Post-Quantum Asynchronous Remote Key Generation for FIDO2 Account Recovery

ePrint Report: Post-Quantum Asynchronous Remote Key Generation for FIDO2 Account Recovery

Jacqueline Brendel, Sebastian Clermont, Marc Fischlin

The Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance develops open standards to replace password-based authentication methods by token-based solutions. The latest protocol suite FIDO2 provides such a promising alternative which many key players have already adopted or are willing to. The central authentication mechanism WebAuthn uses cryptographic keys stored on the device to authenticate clients to a relying party via a challenge-response protocol. Yet, this …

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