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Comment by md_

https://fidoalliance.org/fido-technotes-the-truth-about-atte... explains this pretty well.

Basically:

* Attestation keys are not unique per authenticator; they're shared among batches of authenticators.

* If you extract the batch's attestation key, you can imitate authenticators from that batch. That doesn't mean you can authenticate as a registered authenticator, of course; it just means you can pretend to be a "Yubico XYZ" device.

* Yes, I think Cloudflare is assuming it's hard to extract the attestation key. I think this is basically a safe assumption, but if it isn't, they can always choose to distrust batches known to be compromised.

parent md_ 5 years ago

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