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# WebAuthn APIs for password-less authentication on Windows
### Passwords leave your customers vulnerable. With the new WebAuthn APIs, your sites and apps can use password-less authentication.
Passwords leave your customers vulnerable. When you use the new WebAuthn APIs in your sites and apps, your customers can use password-less authentication.
Microsoft has long been a proponent to do away with passwords.
While working towards that goal, we'd like to introduce you to the latest Windows 10 (version 1903) W3C/FIDO2 Win32 WebAuthn platform APIs!
These APIs allow Microsoft developer partners and the developer community to use Windows Hello and FIDO2 security keys
as a password-less authentication mechanism for their applications on Windows devices.
Microsoft has long been a proponent of password-less authentication. While we work towards that goal, we'd like to introduce you to the latest Windows 10 (version 1903) W3C/FIDO2 Win32 WebAuthn platform APIs.
#### What does this mean?
## What does this mean?
Using these APIs, developer partners and the developer community can use [Windows Hello](./index.yml) or [FIDO2 Security Keys](./microsoft-compatible-security-key.md) to implement password-less multi-factor authentication for their applications on Windows devices.
Users of these apps or sites can use any browser that supports WebAuthn Windows 10 APIs for password-less authentication. The native Windows 10 WebAuthn APIs are currently supported by Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 1809 or later and on the latest versions of other browsers. No matter which browser they use, they'll have a familiar and consistent experience on Windows 10, no matter which browser they use.
This opens opportunities for developers or relying parties (RPs') to enable password-less authentication.
They can now use [Windows Hello](./index.yml) or [FIDO2 Security Keys](./microsoft-compatible-security-key.md)
as a password-less multi-factor credential for authentication.
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Users of these sites can use any browser that supports WebAuthn Windows 10 APIs for password-less authentication
and will have a familiar and consistent experience on Windows 10, no matter which browser they use to get to the RPs' site!
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The native Windows 10 WebAuthn APIs are currently supported by Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 1809 or later
and latest versions of other browsers.
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Developers of FIDO2 authentication keys should use the new Windows 10 APIs, to enable these scenarios in a consistent way for users.
Moreover, this enables the use of all the transports available per FIDO2 specifications - USB, NFC, and BLE
without having to deal with the interaction and management overhead.
This also implies browsers or apps on Windows 10 will no longer have direct access to above transports for FIDO-related messaging.
#### Where can developers learn more?
## Where can developers learn more?
The new Windows 10 APIs are documented on [GitHub](https://github.com/Microsoft/webauthn)