Windows 10: How does FIDO2 authentication over BLE transport work for browsers that do not support BLE.

For example, Firefox uses authenticator-rs as Webauthn library which only supports USB-HID transport.Yet I am able to use a BLE authenticator to login to my Google account in Firefox on a Windows machine.Somehow Windows supports the BLE transport to the Browser I guess, but I was not able to determine how exactly that works.Any help or direction to documentation on this topic is appreciated.

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Bluetooth Low Energy - BLE

Hi, I've seen a few questions around BLE. As I've been wanting to be able to use home-automation products with BLE, I recently contacted KEVO (Unikey) about their "interest" in developing an app for their smart lock, I got this reply back:

"With the introduction of the 8.1 OS, Windows phones have the ability to pair with most BLE devices. There are two forms of communication needed to pair. Central Communication (listener) and Peripheral Communication (talker).

Unfortunately the Windows phone only operated centrally, as do the Kevo, so pairing is not an option at this time.

We have had the same problem with Android, up until this month when the finally will be releasing Android L.

We are developeing the Android app now and we really hope that Windows will make the improvements to BLE capabilities as well."

Is above correct and if yes, should we expect WP8.1 to support this?

Regards, Finn

 

Windows 10 BLE WPF - ValueChanged no longer works in 1809

I have a WPF BLE Central application (not UWP) that used to work in Windows 10, 1803 connected to Nordic NRF52 processor.

The issue is the code below no longer generates event.

aCharacteristic.ValueChanged += char_ValueChanged_Notification;

I am not using any pairing or bonding currently. Below is high level summary of the BLE code.

aBleDevice = await BluetoothLEDevice.FromBluetoothAddressAsync(blueToothAddr);

var gatt = await aBleDevice.GetGattServicesAysnc();

// For each of the service found, get the Characteristics

var charResult await service.GetCharateristicsAsync();

// For each characteristic that I want to be notified, I have code below generated event in 1803, but no longer works in 1809 or in 1903.

aCharacteristic.ValueChanged += char_ValueChanged_Notification;

Any suggestions on how to make it work in 1809 and later? It appears to be related to security issue change(?) that prevents reading / receiving data from the BLE Peripheral?

 

Bluetooth BLE doesn't work properly on Windows 11

Yes apparently Microsoft doesn't support BLE in Windows 11. They think they do but they don't. A shame!

Can someone at MS wake up?