A sample to enable two factor authentication to an android app using Google Authenticator.
A sample to enable two factor authentication to an android app using Google Authenticator.
This project uses https://github.com/wstrange/GoogleAuth library.
The following code creates a new set of credentials for a user. No user name is
provided to the API and it is a responsibility of the caller to save it for
later use during the authorisation phase.
GoogleAuthenticator gAuth = new GoogleAuthenticator();final GoogleAuthenticatorKey key = gAuth.createCredentials();
The user should be given the value of the shared secret, returned by
key.getKey()
so that the new account can be configured into its token device. A convenience
method is provided to easily encode the secret key and the account information
into a QRcode.
When a user wishes to log in, he will provide the TOTP password generated by his
device. By default, a TOTP password is a 6 digit integer that changes every 30
seconds. Both the password length and its validity can be changed. However,
many token devices such as Google Authenticator use the default values specified
by the TOTP standard and they do not allow for any customization.
The following code checks the validity of the specified password against the
provided Base32-encoded secretKey:
GoogleAuthenticator gAuth = new GoogleAuthenticator();boolean isCodeValid = gAuth.authorize(secretKey, password);
Since TOTP passwords are time-based, it is essential that the clock of both the
server and the client are synchronised within the tolerance used by the
library. The tolerance is set by default to a window of size 3 and can be
overridden when configuring a GoogleAuthenticator instance.