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spear | 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure my 2017 Macbook Pro (Intel, no Touch Bar) doesn't have a Secure Enclave chip, yet it supports Passkeys.

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snagg|2 years ago

Hi,

I'm the author of the SlashID blogpost. You are right, the WebAuthn standard doesn't provide any guarantees on the authenticator storage security hence passkeys (and WebAuthn creds) can be stored in anything that speaks CTAP2.

We wrote a follow-up blogpost talking about the threat model in which we touch on the above: https://www.slashid.dev/blog/passkeys-security-implementatio...