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To be clear, there is no real mutual authentication between the server and the token. The server can authenticate tokens (after first registrations) but not the other way. (You have to get outside FIDO U2F specifications if you want to do so.) With standard FIDO U2F USB tokens, the server authentication is done through SSL on the client application level (most of the time : a web browser).



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