- From: Emil Lundberg via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:00:07 +0000
- To: public-webauthn@w3.org
> By FIDO I mean those which support FIDO protocols. In that case WebAuthn is definitely not limited to FIDO authenticators - pretty much every platform authenticator will be communicating with the client using something else than a FIDO protocol. > > WebAuthn is designed to work with any authenticator+client combination capable of satisfying the abstract interface. > > You mean any authenticator. The client is the webauthn. I do mean authenticator+client combination. :slightly_smiling_face: For example, at this moment Chrome on Android is capable of using the security systems in Android as a WebAuthn authenticator but Firefox on Android is not. > Maybe we need definition for "WebAuthn authenticator" so people don't get confused. Maybe - the current [Authenticator][authnr] could probably use a couple of examples. It's also lacking the alias "WebAuthn Authenticator" that we have for Client, Relying Party etc. [authnr]: https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/#authenticator -- GitHub Notification of comment by emlun Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1128#issuecomment-453544315 using your GitHub account
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