AuthenticatorAttestationResponse: attestationObject property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨September 2021⁩.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The attestationObject property of the AuthenticatorAttestationResponse interface returns an ArrayBuffer containing the new public key, as well as signature over the entire attestationObject with a private key that is stored in the authenticator when it is manufactured.

As part of the CredentialsContainer.create() call, an authenticator will create a new key pair as well as an attestationObject for that key pair. The public key that corresponds to the private key that has created the attestation signature is well known; however, there are various well known attestation public key chains for different ecosystems (for example, Android or TPM attestations).

Value

After decoding the CBOR encoded ArrayBuffer, the resulting JavaScript object will contain the following properties:

authData

The Authenticator data for the operation. Note that in AuthenticatorAssertionResponse, the authenticatorData is exposed as a property in a JavaScript object (see AuthenticatorAssertionResponse.authenticatorData) while in AuthenticatorAttestationResponse, the authenticatorData is a property in a CBOR map.

The same AuthenticatorAssertionResponse.authenticatorData field is used by both AuthenticatorAttestationResponse and by AuthenticatorAssertionResponse. When used in attestation, it contains an optional field, attestedCredentialData. This field is not included when used in the AuthenticatorAssertionResponse. The attestedCredentialData field contains the credentialId and credentialPublicKey.

fmt

A text string that indicates the format of the attStmt. The WebAuthn specification defines a number of formats; however, formats may also be defined in other specifications and registered in an IANA registry. Formats defined by WebAuthn are: