- From: Rolf Lindemann via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 07:03:49 +0000
- To: public-webauthn@w3.org
The rationale was to make sure that the user gets prompted by *some* authenticator in order to know that someone is trying to figure out what authenticators are present on that machine. So this don't fail but use other authenticator was intended as a privacy features as we heardprivacy complaints about a more generic authenticator discovery feature before (which it would be in the case of returning a silent error code if the preferred authenticator is not present). -- GitHub Notification of comment by rlin1 Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/227#issuecomment-250387022 using your GitHub account
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