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

[Christos Vasilakis]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 1/13/2015 11:19 AM, Summers Pittman wrote:
> > On 01/13/2015 11:11 AM, 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.
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Even better, in Android this can be done from an interactive
> > notification.  You won't even need to open the app.
> >
>
> Probably the same in iOS, no?
>

the same 'interactive notification' concept exist in iOS too, that is
without launching the app in the foreground, instead allowing the user to
click 'Accept/Send OTP" in the notification directly and let the system
call your app in the 'background' to process the request.

-
Christos




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