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FIDO at LINE: A First Step to a World Without Passwords
Kieun Shin2018-12-07
I am working at LINE as a security software engineer and in charge of advanced authentication technologies including FIDO project. Since 2015, I've been a member of FIDO Alliance and contributing to the FIDO specifications and W3C WebAuthn standards.
Getting closer to a world without passwords Today we are happy to announce that LINE has achieved the world’s first FIDO Universal Server certification (as a service provider1) for our authentication server — LINE Authentication Server. With FIDO authentication, LINE users can sign in and authenticate both using biometrics (for example, face and fingerprint), as well as with external hardware tokens like Yubikey and Google Titan key. Regardless of the

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