A from-zero login door: the browser calls navigator.credentials.get() with an
empty allowCredentials, the authenticator returns an assertion carrying the
resident credential's userHandle, and the server resolves the account from that
handle alone — nothing is typed or client-named.
Routes (both Public):
POST /api/v1/auth/passkey/login/discoverable/begin
POST /api/v1/auth/passkey/login/discoverable/finish
Begin stashes the ceremony SessionData server-side keyed by an opaque login_id
under a global cap; finish consumes it single-use, hands the
authenticator-revealed userHandle to a UserByID resolver, and mints a session
only for the account the assertion actually verified to. Every finish rejection
— no live challenge, expired, bad assertion, unresolvable handle — collapses to
one passkey_login_invalid envelope, so finish is never an existence/state
oracle. SignCount is surfaced but not yet consumed, exactly as the
username-first door, so the from-zero path offers no clone-detection bypass.
The discoverable VERIFY path is Oracle-verified end to end against a virtual
authenticator (internal/passkey): it resolves the account from the signed
userHandle, fails closed when the handle names no account, and rejects an
assertion signed by a credential not bound to the resolved user — the
impersonation guard unique to usernameless login. Enrollment now requests a
resident key (authenticatorSelection.residentKey=preferred), the only
server-side half a unit test can pin.
Whether an authenticator actually stores a resident key is a device property no
test can reach, so this door is INERT for a credential until its owner enrolls a
NEW passkey against these options; "preferred" (not "required") preserves the
no-lockout fallback to username-first + email-OTP.
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