On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Rick Byers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chrome ships with a built-in extension that exposes the high-level API > (which I think we all agree is a hack). We recently had this discussion > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/wfIVkXvQ7kQ/VfuOr_FhBwAJ> > about the right path forward here, and agreed that we should instead focus > our efforts > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/blink-dev/u2f%7Csort:relevance/blink-dev/qCJhuuZH5p0/le6l1t37AQAJ> > on the Web Authentication API <https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/> instead, > since it seemed much more likely to be something that would become > interoperable between browsers. > Boris's comment in the referenced thread makes me think that we should just implement https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/ if any: 1) [Gecko/Firefox] have an implementation of the FIDO U2F API behind a pref > so people > can experiment with it. > 2) [Gecko/Firefox] plan to ship the API being developed at > https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/ once it stabilizes. > > 3) [Gecko/Firefox] have no plans to ship the FIDO U2F API, now or in > the future. As such, I don't think we should be implementing FIDO U2F API on trunk. - R. Niwa
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