Application passwords are long random keys that can be generated by the users in the Self-Services and are specific to a client application. These keys can be used as a replacement to the default login when the application does not support OTP nor U2F. The typical use-case is a mail server that is accessed via mobile devices. The mail clients on the devices are configured with the mail server application’s password to avoid entering the OTP password at every connection.

OpenOTP contextual authentication is able to intelligently lower the security requirement for a user login when a trusted context is validated. The trusted login context relies on the user’s IP addresses combined with client device fingerprints. When a login context is trusted, the user logs in with a single factor (the domain password). If a login failure occurs, multi-factor is enforced again.

With OpenOTP QRCode key provisioning, token self-registration has never been so easy. No manual Token configuration or secret key input is required: With Google Authenticator or FreeOTP, users register their Software Token simply by scanning a registration QRCode on their iPhone or Android mobile device. With other Software Tokens, users simply scan the displayed Token Key with a barcode reader and copy/paste it to their Token key for registration.

Software Token technologies require the end-user to download the mobile software, enroll the mobile Token on the authentication server, and sometimes resynchronize the OTP generator. OpenOTP includes end-user Web Applications (SelfDesk and SelfReg) for simplifying the deployment of your solution as much as possible. RCDevs’ Self Services provides self-management end-user portals to be published on your corporate or public network.
RCDevs SelfDesk allows end-users to self-configure some personal settings, update their account information (ex. mobile number or email address), download, register and resync their Software Tokens.
SelfReg is another WebApp where administrators can trigger a user email with a one-time self-registration URL. By clicking the URL and entering his password, the user can register, resync and test Tokens.
PwReset allows users to securely reset their lost or expired Domain passwords with Token / SMS OTP, PKI and even U2F.

OpenOTP complies with the highest security requirements by supporting Hardware Security Modules (HSM). The YubiHSM hardware modules from Yubico (https://www.yubico.com/products/yubihsm/) can be used in order to enforce hardware cryptography in OpenOTP with AES encryption of Token seeds and true random generation for SMS/Email OTPs, OCRA challenges, OTP lists. The use of HSM modules in OpenOTP is 100% transparent and the migration to hardware cryptography can be done at any time without impacting your business. RCDevs WebADM server supports up to 8 HSM modules in the hot-plug mode for fault-tolerance and increased performance.

Trusts are special Domains that do not correspond to a set of local LDAP users but a set of users on a remote OpenOTP installation. The Trust system works like an authentication proxy for remote domains (within a trusted organization) and maps a local virtual Domain name to a remote Domain on another WebADM server.