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Sure, but why not preserve the option for people to use hardware keys?

Unfortunately, both the FIDO and WebAuthN working groups seem to be dead-set on making the hardware authenticator use case as painful as possible [1] [2] [3].

I just don't get it. Why even try to pretend that WebAuthN is a single API for both use cases when all stakeholders in charge seem to have given up on one of them?

[1] https://github.com/fido-alliance/how-to-fido/issues/16

[2] https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1612

[3] https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1822




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