YubiX: Reference Auth Software

Yubico Team

Yubico Team

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Yubico is happy to introduce a project that combines several of our server-side software packages: YubiX. YubiX is intended as a reference architecture software stack to demonstrate how to build robust and secure authentication systems that utilizes the YubiKey and YubiHSM hardware. While YubiX may be run directly as-is, it is not intended as a “product”; rather it is intended as inspiration for customers and partners to adapt and build their own solution from. We encourage people to take parts of YubiX and put them into products or their own system designs. All the software in YubiX is free and open source software.

The current functionality includes a web service interface and a RADIUS interface for validating username, password and Yubico OTPs, together with related administrative interfaces. However the YubiX project goal is to generally showcase different technology options that can use Yubico OTPs; so expect it to go in any direction that new technology takes it. Yubico is committed to support our own components that make up YubiX and will engage with the community through GitHub using a issue tracker and source code development tools. However Yubico does not provide system-level support on external parts, such as the core Debian/Ubuntu operating system or components like FreeRADIUS: those are already well service by their own communities.

To focus our resources on YubiX, we are now retiring our old product YubiRADIUS including its components such as YubiApp. Yubico is not recommending any single migration strategy for YubiRADIUS, instead we encourage all existing YubiRADIUS users to evaluate different options. If you have technical know-how we believe the components that makes up YubiX will allow you to build something better and more robust going forward. If you prefer to take an off-the-shelf product, there are options like DuoSecurity, LinOTP, OpenOTP, AuthAnvil and others. By partnering up with someone external, you can also create a custom solution for you based on YubiX components and components built by a partner. Of course, finally, if you are happy with YubiRADIUS, there is no reason to stop using it except that it will not be maintained or supported by Yubico going forward.

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