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Device Bound Session Credentials

Category
Security
Type
New or changed feature
Status
In development (Chrome In development)
Intent stage
None

Summary

To enhance user security and combat session cookie theft, Chrome is introducing [Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC)](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/device-bound-session-credentials). This feature allows websites to bind a user's session to their specific device, which makes it significantly more difficult for stolen session cookies to be used on other machines.

Motivation

Reduce session theft by offering an alternative to long-lived cookie bearer tokens, that allows session authentication that is bound to the user's device. This makes the web safer for users in that it is less likely their identity is abused, since malware is forced to act locally and thus becomes easier to detect and mitigate. At the same time the goal is to disrupt the cookie theft ecosystem and force it to adapt to new protections.

Standards & signals

Explainers: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-dbsc/blob/main/README.md

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