Providing sufficient information and asking the right question is half the way of getting help successfully. This is true for getting help for privacyIDEA on the mailing list, in a support contract and also with any commercial product. This is why the first question of the kind woman in the call center […]
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I am really puzzled and scared by many modern “security” consultants who claim the smartphone to be the next security device or even my identification object. Knowing that the smartphone has more cores than most desktop computers, is connected faster to the internet (thanks to LTE) than most land line […]
privacyIDEA provides the possibility to verify credentials that arrive via a REST API. You can attach arbitrary applications to privacyIDEA. But this could also result in arbitrary data being sent. This is why we just pushed a new feature for the next release 2.5 of privacyIDEA. Authentication Data Mangling Just […]
Hooray. We released privacyIDEA 2.4 quite a while before the original release plan. Things went well and smooth. I already wrote about two interesting new features in privacyIDEA 2.4 – the User Management and Admin Realms. Interesting: User Management may help to ease the scenrios of smaller installations, since you […]
privacyIDEA has been able to use administrative realms for quite a while. I.e. you can define a connection to an LDAP directory, define a resolver and a realm and get all users in a security group. Then you can set this realm to have administrative rights in privacyIDEA. Thus you […]
privacyIDEA has always assumed that the authentication will be used in an existing network on top of an existing application. Looking at a corporate network or at any application like your blog software, your VPN, your local login, there are always users. Users already exist. So I guess the assumption […]
In winter 2014/15 privacyIDEA was migrated – or should I say rewritten – based on Flask. At this point it was also possible to restructure the library layer resulting in an unmangling of the old Pylons-based code. Thus it resulted in the fact, that the database layer, the library layer […]
In Tübingen, Germany will be a new Linuxtag – called Tübix. It is the first time that this event is conducted. The location and the program seems to be very interesting. Cornelius will do a workshop there about installing privacyIDEA, enrolling tokens and authenticating at SSH. You should get an […]
We just released privacyIDEA 2.3. privacyIDEA is moving towards a central point to manage authentication items. This was done by adding the machine concept, SSH keys, using Yubikeys for booting LUKS and now by adding the possibility to manage certificates. privacyIDEA acts as a central control room to manage all […]
privacyIDEA has started as a backend system for One Time Passwords. But as you might have noticed, it moves more and more to a system, that manages many different devices, identities and ways to authenticate a user. After the initial Fork many new authentication aspects have been added. The Yubikey […]