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Well heck, I'm very happy you chimed in on this, thanks. Very happy surprise.



To be honest, I think as it is, not providing attestation was the only way to not outright be in violation of the FIDO/WebAuthN specifications (which at the moment requires specifying whether a key is "stored inside secure hardware", for which there is no good answer for synchronized credentials), but I don't think we're in the clear yet:

Nothing prevents the big platform players (who are major contributors to the WebAuthN specification) from introducing a new form of attestation that specifically allows expressing that a credential is synced. I could absolutely imagine this happening in WebAuthn Level 3, FIDO CTAP 2.2 etc.




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