Thank you for offering an actual contribution instead of just asking for a feature, that's great! I personally would welcome the addition, but it is also a bit risky to allow this one technology, as some people may argue that if this is accepted, other solutions should be integrated as well and we don't want feature creep. But OTOH we already have LDAP as a special case and at least WebAuthn is an open, widely available standard.

Please do open a PR where we can discuss the implementation.

Great work and kudos to emlun! WebAuthn is a fantastic addition to SyncThing as the current basic authentication is EXTREMELY outdated for such a great tool. Will be testing once first beta is available.

I would like to do some testing on Webauthn support and provide feedback. I downloaded the latest development build (syncthing-windows-amd64-v1.20.4-rc.1.dev.7.g34a5f087.zip) from the build server last night and replaced my syncthing.exe (Windows) but did not see the new options in the GUI. Would you let me know how to enable for testing? Perhaps I downloaded the wrong build? Thanks.

It's not merged yet. You can follow the development here: #8417

Thanks. Will monitor and test once it's merged.

Joe

What is the current status of the development work on Webauthn support? Still don't see this in the development or beta builds. Has development stalled? Would like to help out where we can to move this along. Be happy to test, provide feedback and work on documentation updates if we can get an early build (Windows).

As you can see, the PR is still in a WIP state. If you want to test it now, you'd need to clone the PR author's Syncthing repository, compile Syncthing from the webauthn branch locally, and then run the binary on your system.

Any movement on adding WebAuthn support? Still would love to test and help out!

Thanks

The first step toward it is PR #8757 which will hopefully finish soon. Then we'll see where to go from there, probably resurrect PR #8417 in some way. I have some time to work on this in the next couple of weeks, so hopefully we can get some work done.

Emlun - Thank You for the update. We stand ready to perform testing and feedback on all the various Windows client and server builds using all the major browsers once a beta build is available. Much appreciate your work as this will add some long overdue polish to the front-end of Syncthing, along with the security benefits which WebAuthn brings.