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For cases like this, when people leave their key permanently attached to a device, it would be nice if the device itself had this functionality built in. I mean, the iPhone already has a secure enclave to store this kind of sensitive data.



There is a web service using exactly such a mechanism for U2F in browsers: https://krypt.co/

This works through an addon in the browser rather than native functionality but the system is secure enough that I use it as a backup for some of my 2FA services in case I lose my TOTP keys.


You mean like the MacBook Pro?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207054


Yes: this is apparently supported by https://github.com/github/SoftU2F — see https://github.com/github/SoftU2F/pull/29#issuecomment-32408... — but the documentation doesn't reflect that yet.


That's what the TPM does. Windows Hello in conjunction with a TPM can be used for FIDO2 authentication in the current Windows 10 version.




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