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U2F/FIDO2 on Degoogled phone (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Yo folks, I have LineageOS installed on my smartphone without any google services ofc Why can't I use U2F or FIDO2 (hardware keys)? It this Google feature?

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[–] prcrst@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Basically, yes. IIRC the FIDO/U2F handling is implemented in google libs.

They are however re-implemented in microG: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status, so if you are open to using that it should work with apps using the corresponding google client libraries.

I have used Firefox on Lineage/microG and tested FIDO2 there, it does NOT work with Fennec as that does not include the required client side libraries.

[–] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, thanks! Is there a standalone implementation as I do not want to install whole microG?

[–] prcrst@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not that I know of. I think this needs to be implemented in a system framework.

[–] sudneo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I confirm what the other comment said, with microg it works fine. I am using /e/OS and I regularly use yubikeys with Firefox, bitwarden and the yubico app.