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Re:A Guide to WebAuthn by masklinn on Sunday January 05, 2020 @02:33PM (#21963399)
Firefox lets you enable software tokens, and disable USB tokens: in about:config, set

    security.webauth.webauthn_enable_softtoken=true
    security.webauth.webauthn_enable_usbtoken=false
then the registration will go through without needing a hardware token.
Re:A Guide to WebAuthn by sam_lowry_ on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:13PM (#21964142)
Err... and how is my software token generated? Where is it stored? Can I move it around browsers, e.g. use it with my Mobile Firefox after I generated in on the desktop?
Re:A Guide to WebAuthn by C14L on Sunday January 05, 2020 @03:44PM (#21963943)
In other words, I can't use it in production (yet), because I'd need to ask users to change browser settings for it to work. That's disappointing :(
Re:A Guide to WebAuthn by thayne on Sunday January 05, 2020 @06:46PM (#21965136)
You can use it in production for users who have hardware tokens (and it is used in production by many sites for 2FA). But if you mean you can't _exclusively_ use it in production, then yes that is probably true since not all users will have authenticators (yet).
Re:A Guide to WebAuthn by zaroth on Sunday January 05, 2020 @03:30PM (#21963832)
It’s almost like the designers thought - we are so damn close to killing the password, but, nah, why bother.