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Yet on the flip side, if I’m trying to auto identify my own phone for a login-less private app i tried to build I couldn’t get to reliably generate a consistent fingerprint on safari private mode, it regenerates 50% of the time, I’ve tried several libraries like fingerprintjs and co..




Fwiw, I use Tailscale/wireguard and take care to ensure the source IP gets fed to apps properly. This makes it easy to guarantee I have a reliable way to identify myself on my webapps and auto-auth.

Isn't that what webauthn was made for?

Or did I misunderstand you?


How about mTLS?



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