Thanks for the kind words! Appreciate you taking it on, let me know what we can do to help.
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:31 AM, John Kinsella <j...@stratosec.co> wrote: > Hey Nick - great to hear! I'll have to give that a try. > > For those not familiar with WiKID's 2FA, I consider it one of the better > implementations out there, they've got a better solution than the standard > hardware token by itself. > > Not sure we have the bandwidth to get this in for the 4.0 release…I'll take a > peek but will probably be for 4.1. I'll definitely be using this so happy to > put it on my to-do list. > > John > > On Aug 17, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Nick Owen <no...@wikidsystems.com> > wrote: > >> Greetings! >> >> I recently did a presentation on cloud infrastructure and strong >> authentication. As part of that effort, we have released a plugin for >> Cloudstack that requires users to use WiKID two-factor authentication >> when logging into the Cloudstack admin. The source and a jar file can >> be found on our sourceforge site here >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/wikid-twofactor/files/Cloudstack%20WiKID%20Integration/ >> and is licensed under the ASL v2. An installation doc is here: >> http://www.wikidsystems.com/support/wikid-support-center/how-to/how-to-add-wikid-two-factor-authentication-to-cloudstack-manager. >> >> Some background: WiKID use asymmetric encryption embedded in software >> tokens to securely transmit PINs one way and OTPs the other to >> authenticate users. We have a dual source model. This code is fully >> compatible with the open-source Community version. >> >> Why did we do this? Because static passwords suck. Why should you be >> interested in this? Because almost all attacks involve some escalation >> of privilege from weak, guessable, stolen or default credentials. >> "Cloud" brings tremendous benefits but puts a great deal of strain on >> authentication at all levels. >> >> We would love to have this code included in the cloudstack build, if >> there is interest. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Nick >> >> -- >> Nick Owen >> WiKID Systems, Inc. >> http://www.wikidsystems.com >> #wikid on freenode >> @wikidsystems >> > > > -- -- Nick Owen WiKID Systems, Inc. http://www.wikidsystems.com Commercial/Open Source Two-Factor Authentication
