In the past we had a somehow reluctant attitude to biometric authentication. Fingerprints and iris scan could only replace the username, not the password. But after several month of research stackoverflow came up with a what we think easy to use and reliable biometric authentication mechanism. This is why in version 3 […]
Token Types
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With SMS OTP a one time password is sent to a mobile phone. The user is supposed to enter this one time password in addition to his static password. This way, the authenticating party thinks to verify, that the user is in the possession of the mobile phone. This is […]
We are proud to announce the availability of privacyIDEA 2.9. Features Yubico Validation Protocol Version 2.9 comes with support for the Yubico Validation Protocol. This way you can use common Yubico client like the PAM module for Mac OS. privacyIDEA’s yubico validation protocol can be reached via /ttype/yubikey. For more […]
Today privacyIDEA version 2.6 was released. This release eases the way of authentication by providing a new token TiQR. The TiQR token is based on the OCRA protocol, which is a challenge response protocol, that can be used to authenticate or to sign transaction data. The TiQR token is a […]
We just released privacyIDEA 2.3. privacyIDEA is moving towards a central point to manage authentication items. This was done by adding the machine concept, SSH keys, using Yubikeys for booting LUKS and now by adding the possibility to manage certificates. privacyIDEA acts as a central control room to manage all […]
privacyIDEA has started as a backend system for One Time Passwords. But as you might have noticed, it moves more and more to a system, that manages many different devices, identities and ways to authenticate a user. After the initial Fork many new authentication aspects have been added. The Yubikey […]