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L2 and L3 formulate and gather requirements related to cryptographic authenticators into it's own section

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See: https://github.com/OWASP/ASVS/issues/2970#issuecomment-2854271494

We need to create a separate section for requirements related to cryptographic authenticators according to requirements defined by ASVS L2 and L3.

NIST has good sources:

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b/authenticators/#sfc
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b/authenticators/#mfc
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b/syncable/#appB

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