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Web Authentication: An API for Accessing Public Key Credentials (w3.org)
3 points by dagheyman 2994 days ago
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Substantive disappoinment: I'm saddened that this requires JavaScript & X.509. It'd have been nice were it usable strictly from HTTP; by requiring JavaScript it's not really a Web API at all. As for X.509 — it's what we have, so it has to be supported, but it's really embarrassingly bad; it'd be nice were other certificate standards allowed, e.g. via a typedef. As far as I can tell from reading this, X.509 is baked-in and mandatory.

Presentation nit: the HTML is a bit annoying, as focus starts in the table of contents and one must click in the main content area before being able to scroll with space or <next>.