# GitHub supports Universal 2nd Factor authentication · GitHub - Host: [github.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/github.com/) - Saved: October 4, 2015 (2015-10-05T01:47:52Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cb05e35d884f/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cb05e35d884f.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) To help users better secure their accounts, we are expanding GitHub's authentication system to support FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F)—a rapidly growing open authentication standard. GitHub… ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Protected branches and required status checks](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b663085f00f9/) (github.com, September 3, 2015) - [Start Learning Git and GitHub Today with Self-Paced Training](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/87b3b893dbc3/) (github.com, October 30, 2015) - [credstash](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9688b212a364/) (github.com, November 29, 2015) - [Gaffer](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cd7f8e4e410c/) (github.com, December 15, 2015) - [Mojibar](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5849de83d06c/) (github.com, December 31, 2015) ## Saved the same week - [Lessons learned writing highly available code — Imgur Engineering](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/38c134da02d5/) (medium.com, October 3, 2015) - [All the things you didn’t know you could do with SaneBox](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/277463628154/) (blog.sanebox.com, October 3, 2015) - [Matt Yetter](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/445f76f99cab/) (mattyetter.com, October 4, 2015) - [Haunted By Data](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/01947487e656/) (idlewords.com, October 4, 2015) - [New – Amazon Elasticsearch Service | AWS Official Blog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c8a442df75fe/) (aws.amazon.com, October 4, 2015) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/blog/2071-github-supports-universal-2nd-factor-authentication