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by agl 417 days ago
WebAuthn protects the sign in, but malware can still steal the resulting cookies. DBSC protects the sign in _session_. (It should stand for Don’t Bother Stealing Cookies.)
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If you read the proposal carefully. this api is used to refresh/revalidate extremely short lived cookie. not replace cookie itself. Which you can already do with webauthn
Maybe there is an assumption that this is easier to push through for masses because the UX is better. (no phone, no physical key required)
Webauthn always requires a user presence check though.
Seems the whole proposal exists solely because they are unwilling to add a "silence" option to webauthn. I am confused about the decision though.

https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/199#issuecomment-2669...