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signal11yesterday at 9:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Shafting open source projects that implement your spec is not okay, and is terrible optics.

Tech journalists should ask the FIDO Alliance if they’re just Google+Apple+Microsoft in a trenchcoat. Definitely not very open!


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digiownyesterday at 9:03 PM

I do get that there are use cases for actual hardware bound keys for enterprise settings. But having non-exportable credentials (effectively non-ownable) is not acceptable in a consumer setting. This is a thinly veiled attempt at strengthening platform lock-in.

Look, the spec says you can't export the keys to a file! Too bad, go re-register your 120 websites if you want to stop using iCloud/Google!

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