Shibboleth IdP TOTP plugin update

Scott Cantor scott at restingparrotsoftware.com
Wed Jul 8 15:32:05 UTC 2026


We have published a new patch release of the TOTP plugin (2.3.2) for the IdP merely to enable and ship the community provided translations of the messages, which for some reason never got done. We have that queued up for some other plugins soonish also.

I also wanted to note that it was pointed out during a broader security review of this plugin that it more or less *needs* to be configured with account lockout or it's pretty easy to brute force due to the limited code space of the OATH protocol.

That was supported a long time ago, but wasn't well documented, so I shored that up a while back under "Preventing Brute Force Attacks" in [1].

-- Scott

[1] https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDPPLUGINS/pages/1376878877/TOTP



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