Control: retitle -1 ITP: libfido2 -- communicate with a FIDO device over USB

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 10:42:49PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> libfido2 provides library functionality and command-line tools to
> communicate with a FIDO device over USB, and to verify attestation and
> assertion signatures.
> [...]
> This is going to be an optional dependency of OpenSSH 8.2 (optional at
> build time, I think, though it seems sufficiently useful that I'd be
> inclined to link against it by default if it doesn't impose an
> unreasonable run-time footprint), needed for U2F/FIDO support which is
> the principal new feature in that release.  As such I'd like to be able
> to enable it.

Colin and I discussed this in #debian-uk, and agreed to collaborate on this:

> cjwatson> Anyone fancy packaging libfido2 so I don't have to?
> nicooo> cjwatson: I'd be happy to (co)maintain that, I maintain a bunch
>         of the Yubico tooling anyhow (unfortunately)
> nicooo> [...] I'm pretty keen on U2F support in OpenSSH  <3
> cjwatson> nicooo: I'd appreciate it very much, thank you
> nicooo> cjwatson: Would you want to be listed as a co-maintainer?
> cjwatson> nicooo: Happy to if it's helpful

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