Configure passkey (discoverable/resident credential) registration with residentKey=required and userVerification=required
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Steps
Set authenticatorSelection.residentKey to 'required' and authenticatorSelection.userVerification to 'required' in PublicKeyCredentialCreationOptions; this instructs the authenticator to store the credential internally keyed by rpId+userHandle.
Set requireResidentKey to true as well for backward compatibility with FIDO2 level 1 authenticators that do not process the residentKey field.
Provide a stable, opaque user.id (user handle) — this is the identifier the authenticator stores alongside the private key and returns as userHandle in assertions; it must not encode personal data.
After registration succeeds, store the credential ID and public key server-side indexed by user.id; during authentication you can omit allowCredentials to trigger a discoverable credential flow.
Verify during the registration ceremony that the credentialBackedUp flag in authenticatorData is available (authenticatorData flags byte); if set, the credential may be synced to cloud backup (e.g. iCloud Keychain or Google Password Manager).
Known gotchas
Not all platform authenticators support residentKey=required; cross-platform authenticators (security keys) with limited storage may fail the ceremony — surface a clear error to the user.
user.id must not change between sessions for the same logical user; changing it invalidates existing discoverable credentials stored on authenticators.
userVerification=required means the ceremony fails if the authenticator cannot perform user verification (biometric or PIN); use 'preferred' if you want a best-effort approach.
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