[keycloak-user] Step-Up Authentication

Nico Burbigh nbquinns at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 07:22:31 EST 2016


Hi Marek, would you think that the level of authentication should be stored
in the access token or rather as a separate cookie in the SSO server
context? I think it also requires some thoughts around triggering the MFA
on the adapter side.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Marek Posolda <mposolda at redhat.com> wrote:

> Right, we don't have step-up authentication OOTB right now.
>
> In theory, you can implement some support of it by yourself, because we
> have Authentication SPI. So you can do the flow, which will somehow differ
> the required level of authentication (for example based on some request
> parameter) and then choose the authenticators based on the required level
> etc. But note that it likely won't be trivial to do this properly.
>
> Marek
>
>
> On 12/11/16 03:21, Nico Burbigh wrote:
>
>> Hi Keycloak users, we have a requirment to provide step-up authentication.
>> Looking at Keycloak server and its adapters, it appears there is no
>> support
>> for it out of the box.
>>
>> Also user group email
>> http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/keycloak-user/2016-April/005707.html
>> suggests it will come at some stage later.
>>
>> Has anyone used keycloak to provide step up authentication?
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