Putz, Florentin ; Schön, Steffen ; Hollick, Matthias (2021):
Future-Proof Web Authentication: Bring Your Own FIDO2 Extensions.
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 13136, In: Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication, pp. 17-32,
Springer, 4th International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication, Darmstadt, Germany, 08.10.2021, ISBN 978-3-030-93746-1,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-93747-8_2,
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Abstract

The FIDO2 standards for strong authentication on the Internet define an extension interface, which allows them to flexibly adapt to future use cases. The domain of establishing new FIDO2 extensions, however, is currently limited to web browser developers and members of the FIDO alliance. We show how researchers and developers can design and implement their own extensions for using FIDO2 as a well-established and secure foundation to demonstrate innovative authentication concepts or to support custom deployments. Our open-source implementation targets the full FIDO2 stack, such as the Chromium web browser and hardware tokens, to enable tailor-made authentication based on the power of the existing FIDO2 ecosystem. To give an overview of existing extensions, we survey all published FIDO2 extensions by manually inspecting the source code of major web browsers and authenticators. Their current design, however, hinders the implementation of custom extensions, and they only support a limited number of extensions out of the box. We discuss weaknesses of current implementations and identify the lack of extension pass-through as a major limitation in current FIDO2 clients.

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