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Reflect caching of user verification in WebAuthn assertion #2023
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I'm not sure this is needed? If you have attestation then you'll know what the credential model is and will allow or disallow UP/UV caching. I can't really see a case where a deployment would want this because they either don't do attestation, so credentials are a free-for-all, or they do do attestation and they have strict policy about what credentials are or are not accepted and the properties of those devices. |
The current passkey provider requirements explicitly disallow UV caching. |
I'm sure that it will then shock you to learn about passkey providers that set UV=true when they do not infact re-validate the user. They already do UV caching. Ergo my point still stands - if you care about UV being a strong assertion, you need to attest credentials. |
True from an enforcement-of-policy perspective but understand the point of efforts like this is to make it easier and less of a penalty for passkey providers to tell the truth. |
Theres no penalty for them to lie either. Who's checking and regulating any of this? |
No one now but it could become a factor in receiving e.g. FIDO certification. |
It will most likely be a factor for certification and while we at 1Password will eventually become conformant regardless, that would probably be the fastest driver for us and other credential providers. |
Proposed Change
Some pluggable passkey providers, do not request a fresh user verification for each call to getAssertion.
This is a deviation from the traditional behavior and might surprise relying parties that are using WebAuthn today with the respective default passkey providers.
We propose the following:
a) an ability for the RP to tell the passkey provider that caching of the user verification is allowed (up to a defined time, the maximum user verification caching time maxUVC)
b) an ability for the authenticator to reflect the caching of the user verification in the assertion.
See PR #2021
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