tweag / webauthn

A library for parsing and validating webauthn/fido2 credentials
Apache License 2.0
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Use libfido2 for verification of responses #12

Closed infinisil closed 3 years ago

infinisil commented 3 years ago

Motivation from #4

infinisil commented 3 years ago

We took a good look at libfido2, to investigate its suitability for use by a Relying Party server. We conclude that it’s not suited for a number of reasons:

Most of these issues could be worked around at the cost of added complexity to the library. At some point, however, the added complexity outweighs the benefits of using an established library.