feat(auth): passkeys, as a way in and as a second factor

A password and a TOTP code are both shared secrets: the server keeps something
that can be stolen from it, and the person keeps something that can be talked out
of them. A passkey is neither. The private half never leaves the device, and the
signature is bound to the origin that asked for it — so a convincing copy of the
sign-in page at another address gets a signature it cannot use.

Logging in asks for no email. The device knows which account its key belongs to,
which is not only convenience: it means the sign-in page cannot be used to find out
who has an account here. A key that verified its owner is both factors at once and
completes the login; one that only proved possession still meets the TOTP step,
exactly as a password does.

The relying party id is derived from VERDANDE_BASE_URL rather than configured
separately — a second setting that has to agree with the first is one that will
one day disagree, and the failure is a login nobody can complete. An IP address is
refused up front: no browser accepts one, and without the check the server issues
a challenge happily and the browser throws SecurityError long afterwards. The list
endpoint reports whether this deployment can offer them at all, so the interface
never shows a button that cannot work.

A challenge is stored server-side, answerable exactly once, and taken rather than
read — two requests racing the same one would both succeed, which is the shape of
a replay. A sign count that has gone backwards means the credential was cloned and
is refused rather than logged.

The Go tests cover who may reach these endpoints and that challenges are spent.
The ceremony itself needs an authenticator, so the smoke test drives Chromium's
virtual one over CDP — the only thing that can tell whether the base64url
conversions are right, since one wrong byte produces a signature that will not
verify and reads as a broken key rather than a broken encoder.

That test runs at localhost in its own context while the suite stays on the
loopback address, because WebAuthn refuses an IP and resolving localhost is slow
enough here to cost the suite minutes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -388,6 +388,195 @@ paths:
"204": { description: Off. }
"422": { $ref: "#/components/responses/Validation" }
/api/v1/auth/passkeys:
get:
tags: [auth]
summary: The keys registered on this account.
description: |
A passkey is a key on a device rather than a secret in a head. The private
half never leaves the device, and the signature is bound to the origin that
asked for it — so a convincing copy of the sign-in page at another address
gets a signature it cannot use.
One row per credential, because a person has a laptop and a phone and losing
one must not mean losing the way in. The name is theirs to write: a list
nobody can read is a list nobody revokes from.
Sessions only, like `/tokens` — a leaked API token must not be able to add
its own way in, which would turn a theft into a tenancy.
responses:
"200":
description: OK
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
passkeys:
type: array
items: { $ref: "#/components/schemas/Passkey" }
available:
type: boolean
description: |
Whether this deployment can offer passkeys at all. False when
`VERDANDE_BASE_URL` is an IP address or otherwise not a
domain an authenticator will accept — the interface asks once
rather than discovering it from a 503 it caused by offering a
button.
"403": { $ref: "#/components/responses/Forbidden" }
/api/v1/auth/passkeys/register/begin:
post:
tags: [auth]
summary: Start registering a key. Returns the options and a challenge id.
description: |
Registration is done by somebody already signed in: you cannot be handed a
way into an account you have not proved you own.
The challenge is kept server-side rather than in a cookie, because the whole
point of it is that the server chose it and remembers choosing it. It is
answerable once and expires after five minutes.
responses:
"200":
description: Pass `options` to `navigator.credentials.create()`.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
challenge_id: { type: string }
options: { type: object, additionalProperties: true }
"503":
description: |
`VERDANDE_BASE_URL` is not an address an authenticator will accept. 503
rather than 404: this version has passkeys, this deployment cannot offer
them, and those are different things to fix.
content:
application/json:
schema: { $ref: "#/components/schemas/Error" }
/api/v1/auth/passkeys/register/finish:
post:
tags: [auth]
summary: Finish registering a key.
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
challenge_id: { type: string }
name:
type: string
description: What to call it in the list — "min bærbare".
credential:
type: object
additionalProperties: true
description: The response from `navigator.credentials.create()`.
responses:
"201":
description: Registered.
content:
application/json:
schema: { $ref: "#/components/schemas/Passkey" }
"400":
description: The attempt expired, was already used, or did not verify.
"503":
description: Passkeys are unavailable on this instance.
/api/v1/auth/passkeys/{passkeyID}:
parameters:
- { name: passkeyID, in: path, required: true, schema: { type: string } }
patch:
tags: [auth]
summary: Rename a key.
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
name: { type: string }
responses:
"204": { description: Renamed. }
"404": { $ref: "#/components/responses/NotFound" }
delete:
tags: [auth]
summary: Remove a key.
description: |
Scoped in the SQL rather than checked first: an id read in one step and
deleted in the next is a window, and the reason somebody is on this screen
is usually that they think a device is gone.
responses:
"204": { description: Removed. }
"404": { $ref: "#/components/responses/NotFound" }
/api/v1/auth/passkey/login/begin:
post:
tags: [auth]
summary: Start signing in with a key. No session, and no email.
description: |
A discoverable login: nobody has said who they are yet, and that is the
point. The device knows which account its key belongs to, so there is no
address to type and no list of accounts for anybody to probe.
responses:
"200":
description: Pass `options` to `navigator.credentials.get()`.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
challenge_id: { type: string }
options: { type: object, additionalProperties: true }
"429": { $ref: "#/components/responses/RateLimited" }
"503":
description: Passkeys are unavailable on this instance.
/api/v1/auth/passkey/login/finish:
post:
tags: [auth]
summary: Finish signing in with a key.
description: |
A key that verified its owner — a PIN, a fingerprint, a face — is both
factors at once, and completes the login outright. One that only proved
possession still stops at the TOTP step, exactly as a password does.
A counter that has gone backwards means the credential has been cloned. It
is refused rather than logged: that counter is the only signal this design
gives.
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
challenge_id: { type: string }
credential:
type: object
additionalProperties: true
description: The response from `navigator.credentials.get()`.
responses:
"200":
description: Signed in, or `totp_required` when the key was possession only.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
user: { $ref: "#/components/schemas/User" }
totp_required: { type: boolean }
"401":
description: |
One message for an unknown key and for a bad signature. Telling them
apart is a way to learn which credentials exist here.
"429": { $ref: "#/components/responses/RateLimited" }
"503":
description: Passkeys are unavailable on this instance.
/api/v1/auth/sessions:
get:
tags: [auth]
@@ -3127,6 +3316,32 @@ components:
same thing once decoded, and telling "put it nowhere" apart from "I
did not mention it" is what makes this a PATCH.
Passkey:
type: object
properties:
id: { type: string }
name:
type: string
description: What the owner called it. "min bærbare" is what makes a list reviewable.
aaguid:
type: string
description: |
Identifies the authenticator model, which is what lets a list say
something recognisable beside a key somebody named months ago.
discoverable:
type: boolean
description: |
Whether the credential lives on the device. Only these can start a login
with no email typed first.
user_verified:
type: boolean
description: |
Whether the authenticator verified the person — a PIN, a fingerprint, a
face. One that did is both factors at once; one that only proved
possession is a first factor and still meets the TOTP step.
created_at: { type: string, format: date-time }
last_used_at: { type: string, format: date-time }
ProjectGroup:
type: object
properties: