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

Thomas Darimont thomas.darimont at googlemail.com
Tue May 29 06:08:03 EDT 2018


There was an interesting talk about that at Google i/o 2018
https://youtu.be/kGGMgEfSzMw

Cheers,
Thomas

Vlastimil Elias <velias at redhat.com> schrieb am Di., 29. Mai 2018, 11:24:

> 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>
> >
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> >     Principal Software Engineer, Middleware Engineering Services
> >     Red Hat
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