Credential Management is a proposed application programming interface (API) under development by the World Wide Web Consortium for standardizing aspects of how password managers used by web user agents (web browsers and other applications) create, store, use, and modify username and password combinations for logins, in addition to the management of "federated" credentials (such as single sign-on tokens) by user agents. The API is being developed by the W3C's Web Application Security Working Group, and has been in Working Draft status since April 2016. It is a Recommendation-track proposal, exp ...
ected to become an accepted standard, but may undergo significant changes before that occurs. The Credential Management API has already been extended by the WebAuthn (Web Authentication) proposal, which reached Candidate Recommendation status in April 2018 and adds the ability to handle public-key authentication.
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