Using Yubikey in /e/ OS default browser

[ywo4d]

Hi I have Murena Fairphone with /e/OS

I do some work for an organisation that requires 2FA for which I have a Yubikey. Yubikey works fine with my Fairphone for other apps, but this particular login throws this screen:

Highlighted part reads “Requires Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge to use Security Keys”

I can login on my laptop which has Vivaldi browser, so it will recognise a chrome-based browser. I don’t want to have to install chrome just to log in. Is there a way to tell the website it is a chrome-based browser? Any suggestions?

(Or is it something like, “Vivaldi is built on Chrome but /e/OS browser is built on Chromium, which is too different”?)

Regain your privacy! Adopt /e/ the unGoogled mobile OS and online services

[aibd]

It looks as if the answer is complex, so I will not try to simplify these two posts

• https://developers.yubico.com/WebAuthn/WebAuthn_Browser_Support/
• https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016615020-Operating-system-and-web-browser-support-for-FIDO2-and-U2F. This second url is from “support”, I am not certain that I have selected the correct page for your use case, the navigation pane on the left may be more informative.

[tcecyk]

microg got FIDO support end of last year, even nfc got along since, see this user feedback. Lots of open issues on the topic tag [FIDO] so “ymmv”.

In the context of /e/, I think it’s up to bromite now to use it - https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2339

Not sure where Firefox is at currently, they moved issues to their bugtracker and previously relied only on the gplay implementation.

I have a hardware key, will trial it this week and report back.

[ywo4d]

@aibd @tcecyk Thanks both. I was hoping it might be something as simple as a user-agent string change, but it’s quite clear it’s not. And I think I’ll keep a watching brief until it looks a little bit more developed and nearer working out-of the-box given my tech limitations. But will check in @tcecyk to see what you find out…