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

From: "Bill Burke" <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; To: keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 January, 2015 7:12:37 PM Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Why do I have to enter the OTP? On 1/14/2015 2:36 AM, Juraci Paixão Kröhling wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/13/2015 05:11 PM, Bill Burke wrote: >> 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. > > How do you ensure that this browser is the same as the real user, and > not from an attacker? > The browser has correctly entered in a password. There would be a timeout for the browser blocking/waiting for the background OTP transmit. -- Bill Burke JBoss, a division of Red Hat http://bill.burkecentral.com _______________________________________________ keycloak-dev mailing list keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev