Re: webauthn support?

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Jack,

Jack Hill <address@hidden> writes:

> What's the status of webauthn support? When using firefox esr 68 on
> Debian or ungoogled-chromium on GNU Guix, sites that use webauthn seem
> to work: the led color changes on my usb token, I press the button,
> and the webauthn exchange happens. However using icecat
> 68.2.0-guix0-preview1 (thanks Mark!), the led on my token never
> changes color and sites either report that step to have failed or say
> it is not supported by my browser.
>
> Is this a configuration problem on my end? Something that is not yet
> implemented? Does webauthn have freedom issues? Something else?

I'm not aware of any freedom issues related to webauthn, nor any
specific intent by the IceCat developers to disable it.  It might be a
bug, or possibly a side effect of IceCat's changes to the default
settings compared with upstream Firefox.  Here are those changes:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/data/settings.js?h=68

As a first step, I would suggest fiddling with those settings that
IceCat changed, starting with the ones that seem most likely to be
related.

You might also try bringing up the "Web Console" immediately after the
failure, either by typing Ctrl-Shift-K or via the "Web Developer"
submenu of the "Tools" menu.  (Press and release 'Alt' by itself to show
the menu bar).  Any errors shown here may give you hints about which
settings above to fiddle with.

      Mark