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by emlun 2995 days ago
That's the nice thing about webauthn biometrics, though: the biometric data is never sent to the server. The test is done locally, and the server can trust it by verifying a cryptographic attestation of the authenticator's capabilities. And on the flip side, the user can opt in to biometric authentication even if the server does not require or care about it.