More flexibility at the two-factor authentication in ownCloud

Version 2.4 of the privacyIDEA ownCloud App allows for more flexibility with the 2FA login at ownCloud. Using privacyIDEA the administrator can centrally manage users and the second factors of users. With the new release the administrator can also exclude certain user groups from the login with 2FA.

privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition 2.22.1

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The privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition 2.22.1 comes with a few minor bug fixes in the Web UI and the server. Problems with OCRA and TiQR tokens were fixed. The usage of unicode in the resolver config with Oracle databases was fixes. A better error handling in the code for Hardware Security Modules makes this usage even more reliable.

privacyIDEA Authenticator with typo fixes and translation

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Today we release version 1.0 of the privacyIDEA Authenticator. Using the privacyIDEA Authenticator the smartphones of your users become the factor of possession for a secure login. In addition it allows for a secure enrollment process. The secret key of the app can not be easily copied during enrollment.

privacyIDEA 2.22 allows flexible Authentication at VPNs and Firewalls

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With privacyIDEA 2.22 we added the possibility to pass more useful userinformation to a RADIUS client like a VPN. The administrator can add a policy to include the resolver and the realm of a user who authenticated successfully. This response data can then be used in the FreeRADIUS plugin and modified by regular expressions to add any arbitrary RADIUS attribute in the RADIUS response, which then would be sent to the VPN. This additional information can be used by Cisco ASA, Citrix Netscaler or any other enterprise grade VPN to put the user into certain subnets or to assign resource to the user.

Two factor authentication for thousands of users

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If a company or an organization wants to provide two factor authentication for thousands of users they are faced with totally new challenges. Users will not come to the administrators desk. The administrator will not enroll a hardware token…

privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition for Univention Corporate Server

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The current version 2.21.4 of privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition is now available for Univention Corporate Server. We already wrote about the new features in privacyIDEA 2.21 in a previous blog post. Now UCS users can also profit from these enhancements.…

privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition 2.21.1

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Today we released the stable version 2.21.1 of the privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition as version 2.X.1 is released a few weeks after the corresponding major public release and contains necessary bug fixes. You can…

privacyIDEA 2.21 with a more secure smartphone enrollment

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Today privacyIDEA 2.21 was released. Read about it on the privacyIDEA project page. With privacyIDEA 2.21 it will be possible to enroll smartphone based tokens in a more secure manner and mitigate the threat of simply copying the QR code…

privacyIDEA Authenticator - the better smartphone factor

The smartphone is our daily tool and the digital copy of our own identity. This is not the place to discuss the social implications. We just state the fact. The Smartphone as the second factor Due to this fact many organisations and companies…

Transaction signature and federated authentication with privacyIDEA4UCS 2.20.1

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The privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition version 2.20.1 is now available for Univention Corporate Server. You can install or update privacyIDEA 2.20.1 on the UCS easily from the Univention App Center. Please note that the subscription handling…

privacyIDEA 2.20.1 Enterprise Edition released

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Today we released the stable version 2.20.1 of the privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition as version 2.X.1 is released a few weeks after the corresponding major public release and contains necessary bug fixes. We already wrote…

Federated authentication with privacyIDEA 2.20

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Today we released privacyIDEA 2.20. Packages are publically available in the Laundpad repositories for Ubuntu 14.04LTS and 16.04LTS. You can also install the new version via the Python Package Index on any other distribution. New Features…

Welcome dialog and privacyIDEA subscription

privacyIDEA is enterprise software. Managing lots of authentication devices for lots of users is a task that occurs in a company network. privacyIDEA is licensed under an Open Source license. This guarantees, that a company using the Open…

World Wide Web Consortium is enrolling 2FA using privacyIDEA

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Kassel, September, 26th 2017. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is implementing privacyIDEA for securing access to their infrastructure with a second factor. The privacyIDEA Authentication System was chosen due to its flexible nature and the…