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Thanks for mentioning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAuthn According to Wikipedia Dropbox supports it. Any other widely used adopters? Need to check whether gitlab supports when I am at my computer. So it might well be that they even mandate it for their employees. But the statement or at least the part of the statement that made it to the article was not that specific.


My understanding is that Google mandates U2F (the de facto predecessor to WebAuthn) for employee systems, certainly the Google employees I know have FIDO keys. One interesting thing is that some of them don't really understand how those keys work - and the U2F/WebAuthn design means that doesn't matter at all. I believe way more firms should do this and I've tried to gently encourage it at places I've worked.

Older sites tend to support U2F rather than WebAuthn. If you're on a greenfield install, you should just do WebAuthn, but it can be complicated in some scenarios to migrate from U2F especially if you're huge so it's understandable that not all have. In at least Chrome and Firefox the UX is identical anyway.

So, not differentiating them:

Facebook, GitHub and Google are three popular examples

You can also authenticate for some US Federal Government business on Login.gov (even if you aren't a US citizen)

And the UK's "Gov.uk verify" authentication can use Digidentity's offering which in turn relies on WebAuthn or U2F.

Edited to add:

AWS can do it, but, for some crazy reason they won't let you register more than one FIDO dongle. So I would not advise securing an "admin" AWS account this way, only users who can go to someone with admin privs to reset if they lose the dongle, but it's good for a team of developers I guess.

Not allowing multiple dongles goes against the intended security design, ignores a SHOULD in the WebAuthn standard, and also makes a bunch of the fairly complicated design pointless, I can't tell if Amazon are incompetent or had some particular weird reason to do it.


> Need to check whether gitlab supports when I am at my computer.

They support U2F, of course completely opt-in for users/customers.

The question that remains is do they mandate it for employees.


Google, GitHub, GitLab all support it, at least. Azure AD, notably, does not.


Azure AD does, and was one of the first to adopt the new WebAuthN standard.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/auth...

You can also use it on a personal Microsoft account.


I guess it might be a premium feature then? It certainly doesn't show up as an option for me..




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