The cookie approach seems like the more secure aproach because it ties the authentication or registration attempt to the user's browser session, but it doesn't work reliably on Chrome for Windows. Also, a simila problem pops up on Chrome for Linux if the session is used instead of a separate cookie. It looks like the browser doesn't propagate the state change through fast enough which results in some requests contaiining the new/updated cookie, and others don't, which results in sporadic failures. Since we use a signed and expiring challange we still get protection from replay attacks and tampering which enables us to omit the cookie entierly and rely on the challange's signature to prove expiration and authenticity. The only thing we lose is the ability to tie and attemp to a single browser session.
See: https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/wiki/Explainer:-WebAuthn-challengeURL which proposes to add the same challange fetching logic as part of the standard
See: https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1856 which discusses issues that arise from having expiring challanges (which the spec recommends)
See: https://github.com/OneUptime/oneuptime/security/advisories/GHSA-gjjc-pcwp-c74m which is an explot that can happen if the server isn't able to verify the authenticity of challanges that are sent outside of a cookie
This simplifies the loading and cleanup logic, while providing ubiquitous support across JS frameworks. Buttons can now be added in any way imaginable and still work without requiring additional initialization. The upside of this aproach is that it doesn't require a mutation observer nor a global click listener, and is supported by all browsers that also support passkeys.
This is a guess based on a few articles I read where Windows Hello doesn't play nice with Same-Site: Strict. I have no credible evidence to back this up.
- Fix indentation
- Split awkward initializer into separate methods
- Rename credentials to passkeys
- Simplify authenticator registry loading
- Flatten nested errors under ActionPack::WebAuthn
- Set passkey current params only requests that use it
- Inline anemic methods
- Replace custom validation with ActiveModel::Validation
- Rename identity to holder in Passkey
- Rename credentials to passkeys in JS
- Extract framework library out of controllers
- Pass params hashes down to ActionPack
- Attempt to simplify public interface
- Push data decoding down to the classes representing the data
- Introduce has_passkeys
- Add CBOR bigint support
- Rename ActionPack::WebAuthn::Passkey to ActionPack::Passkey
- Add create_passkey_button helper
- Rename public-key to creation-options
- Add sign_in_with_passkey_button helper
- Dispatch events for the whole Passkey lifecycle
- Add ED25519 support
- Prevent crash on missing meta tag
- Validate resident key options
- Don't clobber existing ActionPack config options
- Validate cryptographic params
- Move CurrentWebAuthnRequest into ActionPack::Passkey
- Use ActiveModel::Attributes for Options objects
- Implement expiring challanges
- Add lifecycle events
- Extract param helpers into Request
- Add passkey_creation_options and passkey_request_options helpers
- Add create_passkey_challenge to make it easier to override the create method if needed
- Prefix all view helpers with passkey_
- Auto-include ActionPack::Passkey::Holder
- Make the passkey challange url configurable
- Add a reminder about Passkeys to the magic link email
- Use plain client data json everywhere
- Expose AAGUID and backed_up on Credentials
- Make attestation verifiers configurable
- Auto-suggest names for passkeys and show icons
Stanko K.R.