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Re: Android Key Attestation is "Self Attestation" ?

From: Hodges, Jeff <jeff.hodges@paypal.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 01:11:36 +0000
To: Vijay Bharadwaj <vijaybh@microsoft.com>
CC: W3C WebAuthn WG <public-webauthn@w3.org>
Message-ID: <D4427F5E.DABD3%jehodges@paypalcorp.com>
On 10/26/16, 11:00 AM, "Vijay Bharadwaj" <vijaybh@microsoft.com> wrote:
>No, sorry, that text is confusing.
>
>AIUI the Android Key Attestation signature is itself in the form of an
>X.509 certificate. This certificate contains the credential public key
>and is signed by the attesting key. This public key (the one inside the
>signature-which-looks-like-a-certificate) is what's being talked about
>here.

ok, thanks, plus our link to 'Android Key Attestation' is stale. what i
found..

<https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-key-attestation.h
tml>

..et al seems to work as you describe above.

=JeffH
Received on Saturday, 5 November 2016 01:12:10 UTC

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