Questions tagged [fido2]
FIDO2 (Fast IDentity Online 2) is a technical specification for biometric authentication to online services, based on FIDO Alliance CTAP2 protocol and W3C consortia's WebAuthn standard. FIDO2 is based on previous FIDO Alliance project U2F
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FIDO2 security keys - what attack vectors/weaknesses exist for "bad" keys
What attack vectors exist for "bad" FIDO USB keys? What would the weaknesses of a "bad" key be? How could they be compromised?
This came to mind as I was looking at "make ...
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Reading SSH private key physically stored on yubikey to remote into external PC
I was wondering if it's possible to only store and read a ssh private key on a yubikey and not read the private key the yubikey generated from a client computer?
Currently the only way it seems to ...
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Is FIDO2 authentication vulnerable to a social engineering replay attack?
I'm starting to learn about the FIDO2 standard, and I'm wondering if this scenario is possible...
Victim visits a credential harvesting page and enters their credentials
Credential harvesting backend ...
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Can I use Yubikey to encrypt a file without PGP?
I have a Yubikey 5 Series and would like to use it to encrypt a file, so that a physical presence of my Yubikey would be required to decrypt it.
I know you can save a PGP key onto Yubikey and use it ...
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Why are FIDO2 protected SSH keys affected by phishing attacks?
The OpenSSH developers have written in a description of the "agent restrictions" feature that FIDO2 tokens are vulnerable to phishing attacks: https://www.openssh.com/agent-restrict.html
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How could someone's account that is secured by MFA Yubikey be compromised?
Let's say that I purchased a MFA Yubikey device to secure my accounts. If an attacker wanted to compromise my accounts that are secured with this YubiKey, would this be possible without having the ...
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Can FIDO2 Authentication be used for native application?
I'm currently working on a project, which has a Web API, which is to be consumed by a native application. For the sake of brevity, assume that the application cannot be re-written to be a Web ...
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How exactly does the detection of a cloned FIDO2 credential work?
I am trying to understand the FIDO2 standard. I know that a Relying Party has to implement a mechanism that checks the counter of the respective credentials. Most of the time, a counter is stored in ...
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Why isn't U2F's CTAP protocol forwards-compatible with FIDO2's CTAP protocol?
I've been trying to find the major differences between "U2F" versus "FIDO2" two-factor authentication standards. Reading some of the articles posted by different companies and even ...
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Avoiding Replay Attacks while Using FIDO2's HMAC Secret to Encrypt Data
FIDO2's HMAC Secret extension generates a symmetric secret that can be used to encrypt and decrypt data. HMAC secret's output is based on
output1: HMAC-SHA-256(CredRandom, salt1)
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How to uses FIDO2 hmac-secret extension for offline authentication? [closed]
How hmac-secret extension defined in the CTAP2 Specification is used to help implement offline authentication with an authenticator. Is there any other specification that says how to do this?
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How to set up two YubiKeys to have the same secret?
A lot of services offer authentication with FIDO2, such as Twitter, but only allow the user to set one "security key". This is problematic in case the key is lost or breaks. The ideal ...
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Implementing FIDO2 (WebAuthN) in Native iOS
I am currently investigating the idea of implementing FIDO2 (WebAuthN) support in native iOS using Swift. I understand that there is no FIDO2 support in native iOS, and only available through Safari ...
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Why I can't duplicate OpenSK key
I am curious about why I can't duplicate the OpenSK key.
I have a few keys that I put the same certificate and private key on them but they are different.
I found it useful to have a duplicate key in ...
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FIDO2 - Where do Android and IOS platform authenticators store private key credentials?
I'm new to FIDO2 specification.
I'm aware that Android and IOS devices support FIDO2 protocols (even Android phones could act as a physical key for FIDO2 authentication).
However, Could anyone let me ...
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Can one use a gpg smartcard to implement FIDO2?
From what I understand, the idea of FIDO2 is to use symmetric cryptography, with secret key on the token, and public key on the server. When requesting to connect, the server uses the public key to ...
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"Something you have" on a multi-user device - what is the opinion regarding the NIST AAL3 definition?
The NIST AAL3 specification requires
In order to authenticate at AAL3, claimants SHALL prove possession and
control of two distinct authentication factors through secure
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WebAuthn Variation with non-connect dongle Authenticator
As I read through the WebAuthn / FIDO2 documentation, it appears the authentication is done on the local device to create an attestation to the FIDO server. This future implies the "biometrics" or ...
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Why does WebAuthn require a challenge when asking the client to register a new credential?
When registering a new credential as part of WebAuthn, why does the client need to be sent a challenge?
Presumably this is to prevent a replay attack, but wouldn't a replay attack be prevented by TLS ...
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Does injecting my own key material into the authenticator undermine authenticator's attestation?
I'd like to be able to inject my own key material in the FIDO2 authenticator; at the very least it will remove the need to trust the vendor (because we have no guarantee whether the vendor keeps ...
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FIDO and FIDO2 differences
I've been reading both FIDO and FIDO2 specs for a while tring to understand the similarities and differences between both. Here is how I broke it down so far:
FIDO: First iteration in creating a ...
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Practicality of Direct Anonymous Attestation [closed]
DAA (Direct Anonymous Attestation) is not the only scheme to achieve anonymous attestation. In general, these schemes allow an entity to stay anonymous throughout the attestation process. The concern ...
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Yubikey - WebAuthn and U2F
I have a yubikey which supports only U2F. It doesn't support FIDO2. I read about U2F and i understand how it works.
When i test my Yubikey for WebAuthn on https://webauthn.io it works. I wanted to ...
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Is there any privacy- or security-relevant difference between FIDO2 and SQRL
I just learned about FIDO2 (WebAuthn) and try to make a comparison to the lesser-known novel SQRL authentication scheme.
Both seem to use the same key elements:
a private, user-resident "master key" ...
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