[keycloak-dev] Why do I have to enter the OTP?

Stian Thorgersen stian at redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 03:03:05 EST 2015


Look at YubiKey and FIDO U2F

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 January, 2015 5:11:09 PM
> Subject: [keycloak-dev] Why do I have to enter the OTP?
> 
> Why does a user have to enter in the OTP generated by their mobile
> device?  Wouldn't it be cooler if the steps were:
> 
> 1. Enter in username password in the browser
> 2. Browser blocks and wait for...
> 3. Press a button on your OTP iphone app
> 4. iphone app sends an HTTP message to Keycloak with username and
> generated OTP (in background)
> 5. Keycloak sees if a browser app is waiting for OTP verification, then
> verifies OTP if so.
> 6. Browser unblocks and lets user in.
> 
> Now, the user doesn't ever have to enter the OTP (and mess it up like I
> do all the time).  They just need their mobile device.
> 
> 
> 
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