Since Chrome 49, <keygen>'s default behaviour has been to return the empty string, unless a permission was granted to this page. Removed in Chrome 57.
Documentation
Specification
Specification being incubated in a Community Group
Status in Chromium
Removed
(tracking bug)
Consensus & Standardization
After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.
- No signal
- Negative
- Shipped/Shipping
- Mixed signals
Owner
Last updated on 2020-11-09
Comments
IE/Edge do not support <keygen> and have not indicated public signals to support <keygen>. Firefox already gates <keygen> behind a user gesture, but is publicly supportive of removing it. Safari ships <keygen> and has not expressed public views regarding its continued support.