[keycloak-dev] Any plans to support Web Authentication API?

Vlastimil Elias velias at redhat.com
Tue May 29 05:16:47 EDT 2018


Great news, hopefully it will be sooner rather than later to keep 
Keycloak at the edge of security and modern technologies ;-)

Thanks

Vl.


On 29.5.2018 09:31, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> Yes, we are planning to add support for web authentication, but not 
> sure if it will be this year or next.
>
> On 29 May 2018 at 09:16, Vlastimil Elias <velias at redhat.com 
> <mailto:velias at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     it looks like that Web Authentication API [1] is going to be a new
>     standard widely adopted by browsers to improve web authentication
>     security.
>
>     It helps to prevent phishing attacks (as it automatically validates
>     domain of the login page) and allows to use device's auth hardware
>     (eg
>     biometrics HW) to login into websites.
>
>     Any plans to support it in Keycloak?
>
>     More info in Google IO 2018 session and related blogpost [2]
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Vlastimil
>
>     [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/ <https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/>
>
>     [2] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/05/webauthn
>     <https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/05/webauthn>
>
>     -- 
>     Vlastimil Elias
>     Principal Software Engineer, Middleware Engineering Services
>     Red Hat
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