[2023] FIDO and Webauthn on BSD: Authentication for easily distracted - Taylor R Campbell

Taylor R Campbell: FIDO and Webauthn on BSD: Authentication for the easily distracted Webauthn is taking the world by force. Can BSD keep up? And when did the internet's guard dog trade the terrifying name of Kerberos for a fluffy friendly name like Fido? This talk will present: why you, too, should use FIDO to thwart phishing with the press of a button; what makes FIDO different from the bad old days of unusable, impenetrable hardware crypto tokens; squirrel; recent developments in the webauthn landscape and on the BSDs; and nifty tricks you can teach FIDO to do beyond just logging you into gmai1.com. Taylor R Campbell: Taylor ‘Riastradh’ Campbell has been a NetBSD developer since 2011, working on various areas including device drivers and multiprocessor safety, and is a member of the NetBSD core team and The NetBSD Foundation board.