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refer to ceremony rather than operation
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JeffH authored and JeffH committed Feb 7, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -4607,12 +4607,12 @@ or {{PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptions/allowCredentials}}, as applicable:
- A named [=public key credential|credential=] is not available.
- A named [=public key credential|credential=] is available, but the user does not [=user consent|consent=] to use it.

If the above cases are distinguishable, information is leaked by which a malicious [=[RP]=] could identify the user by probing for
which [=public key credential|credentials=] are available. For example, one such information leak is if the client returns a
failure response as soon as the user denies [=user consent|consent=] to proceed with the operation. In this case the [=[RP]=]
could detect that the operation was canceled by the user and not the timeout, and thus conclude that at least one of the
[=public key credential|credentials=] listed in the {{PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptions/allowCredentials}} parameter is
available to the user.
If the above cases are distinguishable, information is leaked by which a malicious [=[RP]=] could identify the user by probing
for which [=public key credential|credentials=] are available. For example, one such information leak is if the client returns a
failure response as soon as the user denies [=user consent|consent=] to proceed with a [=registration=] or [=authentication=]
[=ceremony=]. In this case the [=[RP]=] could detect that the [=ceremony=] was canceled by the user and not the timeout, and
thus conclude that at least one of the [=public key credential|credentials=] listed in the
{{PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptions/allowCredentials}} parameter is available to the user.


# Acknowledgements # {#acknowledgements}
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