What does privacyIDEA have to do with the abolition of cash money? Usually we do no political blogging here, but this is a great case to give you a deeper understand of the idea behind privacyIDEA. Cash Money In Germany certain disoriented politicians suggest the abolition of cash money. Arguing […]
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In the past we had a somehow reluctant attitude to biometric authentication. Fingerprints and iris scan could only replace the username, not the password. But after several month of research stackoverflow came up with a what we think easy to use and reliable biometric authentication mechanism. This is why in version 3 […]
privacyIDEA 2.18 is out! privacyIDEA Authentication System privacyIDEA is an authentication system. Quite a while ago we started to drop the sole OTP statement. privacyIDEA is managing authentication objects. Yes, a classical OTP key fob token is an object a user can use to authenticate. As is a smartphone. But […]
Get involved! In March we will have a booth at the Chemnitzer Linuxtage (March 11th and 12th). Chemnitzer Linuxtage is the biggest yearly Linux event in Germany with about 3000 visitors. At the booth we will have a demo installation of privacyIDEA, different token types like Yubikeys, U2F devices, Nitrokeys or […]
Today I want to give you an idea about the current development in privacyIDEA. You may like privacyIDEA because it is probably the most flexible and extensible multi factor authentication system due to its sophisticated policies and event handler framework. But I just pushed a small enhancement in regards to […]
This blog article describes, how you can add two factor authentication to your web application using the authentication system privacyIDEA. Two factor authentication has been added this way to ownCloud/Nextcloud, OTRS, dokuwiki, WordPress, TYPO3, Django, Kopano (Zarafa) and SimpleSAMLphp. See the plugin section of the privacyIDEA online documentation. Two different […]
We are happy to annouce that we released privacyIDEA 2.17 today! The new version is available via launchpad and pypi. privacyIDEA the event juggler privacyIDEA can handle events. It all started with a simple notification, but now privacyIDEA can juggle actions and events like a pro. In privacyIDEA there are […]
privacyIDEA won the first place in the Open Source Business Award. The Open Source Business Award – also called OSBAR – is an award by the Open Source Business Alliance to honour innovative Open Source projects. The projects are rated by a jury by all kind of attributes like maturety, documentation […]
We released a patch release 2.16.1 to the Python package index. Everyone running privacyIDEA via a pip install can update. privacyIDEA relies on the Python module ldap3, which is a great module to connect to LDAP and also do redundancy via a server pool and strategies like round robin. Your […]
Today we released just on schedule the version 2.16 of privacyIDEA. Event Handler Framework The event handler framework is great. It is used by a lot of people to adapt their workflows. So we enhanced the UserNotification module. It comes with a lot of new conditions and can send notifications […]