Setting up the authentication service

Overview

Authentication Service is a .NET 8 service that communicates with SAS and FIDO Server to perform the following operations:

• Retrieving the SAS and Fido Authenticators for a given user.
• Performing the authentication using the FIDO authenticators.

Figure: Authentication Service architecture — shows the SAS token flow (SAS), FIDO2 token and auth flow (FIDO2 Server), and their integration with the Authentication Service.

Software Requirements

• Docker or Podman for running containers
• SAS PCE
• FIDO Server (for FIDO authentication)

Prerequisites

• SafeNet Authentication Service (SAS) PCE v3.20 or above
• FIDO Server (for FIDO authentication)

Package Contents

• AuthenticationService.tar.gz
• Config files
• Certificate files