Okta, Inc.

Ildar Abdullin

Umang Shah

Naveen Kumar Keerthy

Chandra Shirashyad

Johannes Stockmann

Santosh Reddy Male

An authentication system facilitates a transfer of enrollment in authentication services between client devices. The authentication system enrolls a client device in authentication services to enable the client device to be used for authenticating requests to access one or more services. As part of enrolling the client device, the authentication system receives authentication enrollment information for the client device that is associated with one or more authentication credentials securely stored on the client device (e.g., a multi-factor authentication (MFA) certificate). The authentication system facilitates one or more processes for transferring the enrollment from an enrolled client device to a non-enrolled client device that limit the number and complexity of actions performed by the user. In particular, the authentication system facilitates transfer of enrollment based on receiving enrollment transfer requests authorized by the enrolled client device using one or more authentication credentials associated with the enrollment of the enrolled client device.

Efficient transfer of authentication credentials between client devices

A process running on client devices intercepts requests destined for an identity provider ('IdP') system and injects a digital signature corresponding to a user associated with the request. In order to reduce or eliminate the burden on providers of the applications or other resources used by the users, the organization providing the IdP system may also provide components that run locally on the client devices of users and integrate with the users' applications. For example, in one embodiment code of the IdP system is run within a container of an application to handle communication with the IdP system. Additionally, code of the IdP system is run as a local process that handles request interception and digital signature injection. For client devices not supporting the use of the local process, a separate verifier application of the IdP can be run locally and allow interactively performing authentication via a user interface.

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Dublin, CA, United States of America

Ildar Abdullin