LGTM1.

The internal privacy/security review concluded that the design of the 
developer flow's integration with an autofill prompt substantially 
mitigates privacy concerns around knowing whether the user has credentials. 
`isConditionalMediationAvailable` is tied to the underlying platform which 
we already reveal to the site through UA client hints and highly correlated 
with `isUserVerifyingPlatformAuthenticatorAvailable`, though it does allow 
marginal distinction between Win11+ and other Windows versions. Given that 
we're relying on the underlying platform authenticator, this is a leak 
we're unlikely to be able to address.

The benefits of driving more cross-browser usage of WebAuthn are 
substantially security-positive, however, and pushing the passkey story 
forward is a solid justification for shipping this mechanism IMO. Safari 
and Edge being on board mitigates to some extent the lack of engagement 
from Mozilla. Thank you for filing the standards position request anyway; 
I've poked some folks on the side to see if there's someone who might be 
interested in paying more attention.

In the meantime, good luck shipping this!

-mike

On Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 12:03:08 AM UTC+2 Nina Satragno wrote:

> Filed https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/692, thanks!
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 5:36 PM Jeffrey Yasskin <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 2:25 PM Nina Satragno <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> Interoperability and Compatibility
>>>
>>> Very low: this is a new feature that's already implemented by Safari on 
>>> their Technology Preview.
>>>
>>> Gecko: No signal
>>>
>>
>> It's probably worth filing a standards-position 
>> <https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/new> request for 
>> significant WebAuthn changes, even though I see from 
>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Vfg2o0peyYg/m/Vp0h8i5VBQAJ
>>  
>> that we can't expect Mozilla to respond. 
>>
>> Other than that: Yay!
>>
>> Jeffrey
>>
>>
>
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