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Aligning U2F attestation with webauthn

Category
Miscellaneous
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 66)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Chrome has never supported the FIDO U2F API directly[1]. However, it does ship with an internal extension and it's possible to implement the U2F API by using postMessage to send messages to this extension. (Description continued in comments.) [1] https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-u2f-v1.2-ps-20170411/fido-u2f-javascript-api-v1.2-ps-20170411.html

Standards & signals

Docs: https://www.chromium.org/security-keys

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