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Gary22
Helpful | Level 5
4 months ago
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Non-resident passkey and U2F

I see dropbox has added resident passkey support for security tokens, however I cannot see any way to add a non-resident key to save valuable slot space on security tokens where entering a username/e...
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    Gary22
    4 months ago

    Free plan. Tried using Firefox and Chome on Windows.

    I have just tried on Firefox on Linux (Debian so LTS version) and that produces a generic error when trying to add the key. Chome on windows tells me that the key is full (which it is, but then it should go with non-resident). 

    Chrome on Linux has worked fine, key is still full but it added as a non-resident/U2F key.

    Both windows and Linux chrome are version 139.0.7258.155

    Anyhow, I've added the key via Linux so all is good from my pov. It works fine to use on Windows just couldn't add it via windows.

    You can ignore my original post as it seems DB have not blocked U2F in favour of only resident passkeys, it seems more a browser/OS issue.

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