Microsoft joins FIDO => Key Container Attestations becomes mainstream

[Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>]

http://fidoalliance.org/news/MicrosoftAnnounce.pdf

FIDO = U2F

"Microsoft joining Fido Alliance's Board is a key milestone to
reaching the post UN/PW Authentication era of strong Authentication,"
said Sami Nassar vice president & general manager Authentication, NXP Semiconductors.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jm_xAJTZGulMOkYOQm-fIQhhkd2VDr9578oh0KOwcEw/edit?pli=1

Google seems to have won the authentication [technology] war.
Essentially on "walkover" since the competition has been fully occupied exercising
their eternal mantra, "We must leverage existing investments in software and systems".

Since Google didn't have much of a system before U2F, this was probably not an issue :-)


Stubborn as I am, I will continue my SKS/KeyGen2 effort until the U2F
spec is public.  After that I will decide if there's anything left to do...

Cheers
Anders