UAF - Universal Authentication Framework

UAF Architectural Overview

Vision

The main goal is the passwordless authentication experience

Values

• Simple to authenticate using biometrics readings, such as fingerprint
• More secure authentication using the cryptography

Methods

• Standardize the messages, and the message exchange sequence
• Standardize the way how biometric authenticators are receiving requests and giving out responses
• Define how cryptography can be used to secure messages that are exchanged

Obstacles

• Identifying all required data that needs to be part of the protocol messages
• Correct implementation of message exchange sequence
• Correct implementation of cryptography sign/verify operations
• Correct implementation of encoding/decoding of the messages

Measures

• Number of successful application of the protocol is high
• Number of protocol adaptations in comparing with password authentication is higher
• Number of security bugs equal to zero

Implementation details

The code presented here is divided into three groups:

1. fido-uaf-core - UAF protocol implementation
2. fidouaf - UAF server, a Jersey service application for demoing UAF protocol implementation use
3. RP Client App - Android relying party client app for demoing UAF server