OpenBSD's chromium port does not have usb support enabled and it might crash
due to some calls to the USB codepath that is not disabled properly.

On (2015-08-11 20:20), Brandon Mercer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:15 PM Alexey Suslikov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Brandon Mercer
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:02 PM Alexey Suslikov <
> > [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Brandon Mercer
> > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:53 PM Alexey Suslikov
> > >> > <[email protected]>
> > >> > wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Hi ports@.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Are these Chrome 40+ FIDO U2F Security Keys supported on OpenBSD?
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > There is a bug report opened:
> > >> > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=451248
> > >>
> > >> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6103523 says:
> > >>
> > >> "Requirements for using Security Key
> > >>
> > >> To use Security Key, you???ll need a computer running Google Chrome
> > version
> > >> 40
> > >> or newer on ChromeOS, Windows, Mac OS, or Linux".
> > >
> > >
> > > Frankly, those requirements changed once bug reports started rolling in.
> > The
> > > first public statement I remember said, "a computer running chrome
> > version
> > > 39 or newer." Then the linux folks had issues and had to do some usb
> > jumping
> > > jacks, and then I opened that bug report, and then freebsd folks
> > complained
> > > as well.
> > >
> > > The issue I take to it is not just compatibility. There is a site out
> > there
> > > that crashes my browser by running javascript. Presumably malicious
> > > javascript could do that anyhow, but this is being caused by one of their
> > > own web applications. Ironically, the yubikey demo site for u2f does not
> > > trigger the same crash.
> >
> > I see.
> >
> > Another thing that bothers me. These keys are USB HIDs, right? Is it safe
> > enough to let browser access USB bus (USB keyboard is HID and people
> > can type different things on it).
> >
> 
> Well, that part of it is a completely different animal. It's probably worth
> a separate discussion about how the protocol works. You are suggesting that
> this couldn't even be made to work in a secure fashion, and I'm not going
> to disagree with you.
> 

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