Re: [webauthn] Headless API (#1924)

Not quite duplicate, but significant overlap with: #1255

Indeed, many WebAuthn authenticators (FIDO CTAP2 ones in particular) can also be used outside of WebAuthn for server-to-server authentication and more. Unlike WebAuthn, CTAP2 allows for skipping the user presence test during authentication, so CTAP2 authenticators can be used for unattended authentication outside of a web browser. For example, I use a couple of YubiKeys to authenticate some automated backup transfers via OpenSSH between my machines.

The "scripting" use case is vague, but perhaps some of it (testing in particular) is already addressed by the [user agent automation](https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/REC-webauthn-2-20210408/#sctn-automation) features?

Beyond that I agree this is out of scope for WebAuthn itself, which is specifically a web API.

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