Updated terms, and added additional description.
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browsers support WebAuthn functionality.
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WebAuthn provides two funcitons: register and authenticate. Usually the
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public and private keypair is stored on an external token (Yuikey etc.)
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or part of the platform (TPM). After the public key is registered, it can
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public-private keypair is stored on an external device, called security key
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(Yubikey, Trustkey etc.) or inside a platform(OS) authenticator. Platform
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authenticators are available on all modern platforms, such as Windows, Mac,
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Android and iOS. After the public key is registered, it can
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be used to authenticate to the same service.
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This module does not preserve a database of registered public keys, their
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