Mar 24, 2025
William Brown tells us all about how confusing and complicated the FIDO authentication universe is. He talks about WebAuthn implementation challenges to flaws in the FIDO metadata service that affect how hardware tokens are authenticated against. The conversation covers the spectrum of hardware security key quality, attestation mechanisms, and the barriers preventing open source developers from improving industry standards despite their expertise.
The blog post for this episode can be found at
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/2025-03-fido_auth_william_brown/