Cant set up passkey on any discourse

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When using hardware which I do not own, I want to use a hardware key instead of putting my password. I got a nitrokey 3C for that purpose.

Registration on discourse fails. Also here on meta.discourse.org

p.s. Registering the key as second factor worked in a linux (debian) + chromium, but not when I try to log in.

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What browser are you using?

Whatā€™s the error you get?

Are there any additional details in the dev console?

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this is on debian chromium (and on ubuntu firefox the same; also the same on firefox nightly (snap) on debian )

After pressing the button on the key

ā€˜The passkey registration process either timed out, was cancelled or is not allowed.ā€™

Error is not helpful; nothing special on the console.

The request to https://meta.discourse.org/u/register_passkey.json gives http 500 with {ā€œstatusā€:500,ā€œerrorā€:ā€œInternal Server Errorā€} payload.

Would the request data help?

id=owBYLgKCahnu_YBKKDAaTdK7LOlDFzwJ9kJPvXfntmdfbyOzs35ddeOM0KnNqHiu6bwBTLu17fF2A7QkNfCE5wJQPdOrG5MIB-9Hek6KoX4wcA
rawId=owBYLgKCahnu/YBKKDAaTdK7LOlDFzwJ9kJPvXfntmdfbyOzs35ddeOM0KnNqHiu6bwBTLu17fF2A7QkNfCE5wJQPdOrG5MIB+9Hek6KoX4wcA==
type=public-key
attestation=o2NmbXRkbm9uZWdhdHRTdG10oGhhdXRoRGF0YVjB06zu7aykTbz9dy22doBbDg8EboPkWBAWR4JLQn8z1TTFAAAAewAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUqMAWC4CgmoZ7v2ASigwGk3SuyzpQxc8CfZCT71357ZnX28js7N+XXXjjNCpzah4rum8AUy7te3xdgO0JDXwhOcCUD3TqxuTCAfvR3pOiqF+MHCkAQEDJyAGIVggy/MDuHan5fRjuKIQp7zkGku7P6p/8s2B4kfectFHcF6ha2htYWMtc2VjcmV09A==
clientData=eyJ0eXBlIjoid2ViYXV0aG4uY3JlYXRlIiwiY2hhbGxlbmdlIjoiTmpRMVpUazJaVE00WlRRNE1UZGxOamd3TVdJNE5XVm1ZV1F5TkRObE1EVmlZek0zTURkbU1qZzJPR1V6TnpRd05HUmxZamRrTVdRMk1tWTEiLCJvcmlnaW4iOiJodHRwczovL21ldGEuZGlzY291cnNlLm9yZyIsImNyb3NzT3JpZ2luIjpmYWxzZX0=
name=Main Passkey

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Does it work on https://webauthn.io/ ?

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yes, registering and authenticating

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I just tried registering a new U2F key here on meta and Iā€™m seeing this error in the console which probably explains it:

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NotAllowedError: The operation either timed out or was not allowed.
  See: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-2/#sctn-privacy-considerations-client.
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I dont get the error description at w3.org ; So it is the implementation broken? I donā€™t seem to get the error in the console, so anything I can contribute?

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Weā€™ll need to look at this - I think browsers have implemented additional requirements (as noted in the link) since we first developed this.

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Thanks @agr for identifying this issue, Iā€™ve pushed out a fix here:

Updating your Discourse to the latest version should now resolve the issue, but if you still encounter any issues please do let us know

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Registering worked fine. That was fast :slight_smile:

But login / auth.js gives me a 500 response