Re: [webauthn] What's this SPEC for?

The user doesn't _need_ to know their UUID, but if there is a way to export it (for syncing, for example) you can be sure that some clever phishers will succeed to "help" some users find and enter their UUID into a form to "confirm your PayPal account". It is impossible to make this mistake with a Web Authentication hardware authenticator.

>I think sync is a big demand.

Again, no sync is needed to use an external authenticator on a new device. You just plug it in and log in. Then if you want you can register a platform credential on that device, if the device supports it, so you don't need the external authenticator the next time you log in to that account.

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